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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 12, Sections 68-70 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Goethe finish Faust?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1848.

2. What governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?
(a) A covenant.
(b) The fates.
(c) Sacrifices.
(d) The Old Testament.

3. How long was it before Gothic art changed the style of European art and architecture in Boorstin's account?
(a) Two thousand years.
(b) A thousand years.
(c) Five hundred years.
(d) A hundred years.

4. When did Goethe start Faust?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1770.
(d) 1812.

5. Whom does Boorstin say was the first biographer?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Dr. Samuel Johnson.
(d) James Boswell.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Zola say man stopped believing in the epigraph to Book 3?

2. What was depicted in the first images?

3. Who does Boorstin say Bach's audience was?

4. How did Benjamin Franklin innovate in the autobiographical form?

5. To what condition does art aspire according to Pater's epigraph for Part 9?

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