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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 did Greeks discover through drama according to Boorstin?
(a) The laws of the state.
(b) Heroes of myth.
(c) The laws of fate.
(d) Themselves.

2. Of what does Stonehenge consist?
(a) An elongated cross.
(b) A stone temple and courtyard.
(c) Numerous figures carved in chalk on hillsides.
(d) Two circles of stones.

3. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?
(a) 1580.
(b) 1607.
(c) 1620.
(d) 1825.

4. What metaphor does Boorstin say permeates Christian literature?
(a) Pilgrimage.
(b) Death.
(c) Conversion.
(d) Transformation.

5. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?
(a) Exceed his model.
(b) Perfect his model.
(c) Leave some flaw by which the work could be distinguished from the model.
(d) Capture his model.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Dickens leave the public sphere?

2. What are hieroglyphs?

3. About what did Virginia Woolf typically write in Boorstin's account?

4. What does Boorstin say Melville presents in Moby Dick?

5. What does Boorstin say Afghanistani made possible according to Hindus?

(see the answer key)

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