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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 11, Sections 57-60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a dithyramb?
(a) A monument that commemorates a sacrifice.
(b) A dance done to honor ancestors.
(c) A poem that commemorates a battle.
(d) A song sung in honor of the god.

2. Why does Boorstin say people see artists as godlike?
(a) Because artists are so often unruly.
(b) Because they are mystified by the power to create.
(c) Because they repeat the divine act of bringing things into existence.
(d) Because they live forever in their work.

3. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?
(a) It became more ideal.
(b) It became monstrous.
(c) It became more formal.
(d) It became more natural.

4. How does Boorstin characterize Stravinsky's role in music?
(a) The philosopher of sound.
(b) The apostle of modernism.
(c) The voice of the past.
(d) The prophet of harmony.

5. When does Boorstin say Stonehenge was created?
(a) 5,000 B.C.
(b) 10,000 B.C.
(c) 500 A.D.
(d) 2,000 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Boorstin say Pantagruel luxuriates?

2. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?

3. In what does Zola say man DID NOT stop believing in the epigraph to Book 3?

4. Of what are Chaucer's Canterbury Tales comprised?

5. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?

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