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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 Hindu religion?
(a) Kathenotheism.
(b) Pantheism.
(c) Monotheism.
(d) Atheism.

2. What did Thespis invent, according to Boorstin?
(a) Comedy.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Drama.

3. What did actors gain in film according to Boorstin?
(a) A medium of self-exploration.
(b) A prophecy of immortality.
(c) A new ambiguity.
(d) New techniques for portraying different selves.

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

5. What else did Thespis invent?
(a) The monologue.
(b) The dramatic mask.
(c) The cult of Apollo.
(d) The dithyramb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was depicted in the first images?

2. What does Boorstin say is Buddhism's response to the questions of living?

3. When does Boorstin say Stonehenge was created?

4. What does each Tale in the Canterbury Tales have according to Boorstin?

5. What does Abbé Suger say about how spirits can raise themselves to eternal things in the epigraph to Part 6?

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