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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. What was Boccaccio's inspiration for the Decameron?
(a) Developments in the medieval church.
(b) The discovery of the New World.
(c) The Wars of the Roses.
(d) The plague.

2. What was the Romans' principal building material in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Wood.
(b) Stone.
(c) Concrete.
(d) Marble.

3. What does Boorstin say was the second step in the use of skyscrapers?
(a) Industry.
(b) Architectural form.
(c) National pride.
(d) Surveillance.

4. Of what is the Florence Foundling Hospital the first according to Boorstin?
(a) Renaissance buildings.
(b) Gothic buildings.
(c) Romantic buildings.
(d) Classical buildings.

5. In what period was the symphony created?
(a) Gothic.
(b) Renaissance.
(c) Romantic.
(d) Baroque.

Short Answer Questions

1. What experience does Boorstin say Dante described in the Divine Comedy?

2. What does Chaucer say in the epigraph to Part 8?

3. What was depicted in the first images?

4. Who was Boethius?

5. What does Boorstin say was absent from the Decameron?

(see the answer key)

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