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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 song sung in honor of the god.
(d) A poem that commemorates a battle.

2. What fear did St. Ambrose's creation allay?
(a) Of buildings that rendered prayer impossible.
(b) Of unsuitable music entering the church.
(c) Of unseemly literature entering the church canon.
(d) Of drabness in church literature.

3. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?
(a) Pneuma.
(b) Techne.
(c) Nomos.
(d) Logos.

4. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?
(a) To create gods.
(b) To make something out of nothing.
(c) To free man from God.
(d) To do God's will.

5. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?
(a) That most deserve to be forgotten.
(b) That the future is full of meaningless books.
(c) That undeserving books are often remembered.
(d) That none are undeservedly remembered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tradition did the Christian church follow in its churches?

2. What becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?

3. In what does Boorstin say Pantagruel luxuriates?

4. Into what is man split according to Emerson in the epigraph to Part 11?

5. What does each Tale in the Canterbury Tales have according to Boorstin?

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