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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. Who does Boorstin say Bach's audience was?
(a) The aristocratic court.
(b) The church and the public.
(c) The church.
(d) The military.

2. Where does Boorstin say Monet's achievement was made?
(a) In the eternal moment of art.
(b) In the relationship between audience and nature.
(c) In the relationship between the artist and history.
(d) In the elusive moment.

3. What did Gibbon add to the genre of human comedy according to Boorstin?
(a) The fairy tale of history.
(b) The historical novel.
(c) The biography of kings.
(d) The saga of empire.

4. How does Boorstin characterize Suger's creation at the St. Denis cathedral?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Ascetic.
(c) Melodramatic.
(d) Obscure.

5. For what is Faust a metaphor according to Boorstin?
(a) The questing soul.
(b) The conscience.
(c) The unconscious.
(d) The dissatisfied modern self.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the third-eye represent in Hindu art?

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

3. Whose arguments allowed images of human figures to be created and displayed in Christianity?

4. Of what is The Odyssey a parable according to Boorstin?

5. What was unique about the first literary work in Boorstin's account?

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