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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. How does Boorstin characterize the Decameron?
(a) Chaste.
(b) Panoramic.
(c) Autobiographical.
(d) Sacred.

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

3. What did Bondone create according to Boorstin?
(a) A personal vision of Christian archetypes.
(b) Individuality in visual arts.
(c) Human figures who transcended religion.
(d) A new form of Christian allegory.

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

5. What was the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge?
(a) Enemies.
(b) Collaborators.
(c) Teacher and student.
(d) Competitors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first literary work according to Boorstin?

2. On what did Melville reflect in Moby Dick according to Boorstin?

3. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?

4. How does Koestler characterize creativity in the epigraph to Book 3?

5. Of what is The Odyssey a parable according to Boorstin?

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