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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. Mozart composed eight symphonies, four divertimentos and some sacred works in a few months at what age?
(a) 11.
(b) 4.
(c) 16.
(d) 22.

2. What was novel about the essay according to Boorstin?
(a) It was combined fiction and non-fiction.
(b) It preserved traditional confessional literary traditions in a new form.
(c) It allowed for new definitions of community.
(d) It celebrated the self.

3. What does The Consolation of Philosophy explain?
(a) How to reinvent yourself as a religious person.
(b) How to distinguish God's way of knowing from Man's.
(c) How to see God's will in events.
(d) How to live in a world without God.

4. To what condition does art aspire according to Pater's epigraph for Part 9?
(a) Music.
(b) Science.
(c) Religion.
(d) Democracy.

5. What does Boorstin say does the artist's job in photography?
(a) Light.
(b) The image itself.
(c) The machine.
(d) The developer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?

2. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?

3. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?

4. What artistic movement does Boorstin say Monet initiated?

5. Advances in what field made it possible for calligraphy to be an art in Chinese culture according to Boorstin?

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