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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. About what did Virginia Woolf typically write in Boorstin's account?
(a) Lighthouses.
(b) Dinner parties.
(c) Unfaithful husbands.
(d) Female writers.

2. What does Horace say about the escaped word in the epigraph for Part 5?
(a) That it cannot be recalled.
(b) That it cannot be defined.
(c) That it cannot be written.
(d) That it cannot be offered in prayer.

3. How does Boorstin characterize the form of Whitman's poetry?
(a) Post-modern.
(b) Unconventional.
(c) Modernist.
(d) Symmetrical.

4. What does Boorstin say Leonardo da Vinci protected?
(a) Traditional Christian figures.
(b) Artistic independence.
(c) The value of history.
(d) The idea of the future.

5. What was the special element of Gothic architecture in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Light.
(b) Irregularity.
(c) Symmetry.
(d) Color.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alphonse Daudet claim music is in his epigraph to Part 9?

2. Why does Boorstin say people see artists as godlike?

3. What metaphor does Boorstin say permeates Christian literature?

4. What does Boorstin say T.S. Eliot believed poetry was about?

5. Mozart composed eight symphonies, four divertimentos and some sacred works in a few months at what age?

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