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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 startling about Leaves of Grass in Boorstin's account?
(a) Whitman's excessive metaphors.
(b) Whitman's discontent with the modern world.
(c) Whitman's apocalyptic prophecies.
(d) Whitman's indiscriminate subject matter.

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

3. What does the dome of the Pantheon proclaim according to Boorstin?
(a) Man's ability to enclose a sacred precinct.
(b) Man's ability to fill a void with his own creation.
(c) Man's ability to provide houses for his gods.
(d) Man's ability to defy gravity in building.

4. With what does Boorstin say men had to struggle in order to believe in the power of human creativity?
(a) Greek grammar.
(b) The logic of Greek mathematicians.
(c) The awe of Hebraic religion.
(d) The charm of Greek philosophy.

5. With what does Boorstin say Alfred Stieglitz experimented?
(a) Architectural forms.
(b) Capturing moving images.
(c) Musical forms.
(d) Exposures and negatives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Michelangelo inspired people to idealize?

2. What is a dithyramb?

3. Of what is Dionysus the god according to Boorstin?

4. How did Dostoevsky view Western science according to Boorstin?

5. Where does Goethe say the shadows are deepest in the epigraph to Part 10?

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