2. What did Confucius say comprised wisdom?
(a) Knowing how to expand your power.
(b) Knowing how to survive.
(c) Knowing what you do not know.
(d) Knowing how to confront difficult questions without flinching.

3. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?
(a) Pneuma.
(b) Logos.
(c) Techne.
(d) Nomos.

4. How does Boorstin characterize the Decameron?
(a) Panoramic.
(b) Sacred.
(c) Chaste.
(d) Autobiographical.

5. What does Virginia Woolf say, in the second epigraph to Part 7, about writing?
(a) That a thing has not happened until it has been described.
(b) That written accounts are only valuable in settling disputes between people.
(c) That writing is a weak man's refuge from the tyranny of events.
(d) That writing is just the poor afterimage of a lived reality.

6. Into what did Boethius want to inject Greek wisdom?
(a) Warfare.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Politics.
(d) Technology.

7. What does Abbé Suger say about how spirits can raise themselves to eternal things in the epigraph to Part 6?
(a) That it requires symbols of beauty.
(b) That it requires symbolic death, again and again.
(c) That it requires renunciation of the world.
(d) That it happens on its own.

8. What does Thoreau say, in the epigraph to Part 7, it takes to speak the truth?
(a) Eyes to perceive it.
(b) One to speak and one to listen.
(c) A commitment to make people see it.
(d) An understanding of what the consequences will be, for the people who don't want to hear it.

9. What does Boorstin say man discovered in Section 24: The Birth of the Spectator?
(a) That crowds have personalities of their own.
(b) That there is safety in crowds.
(c) That the universe does not have anything to do with him.
(d) That he need not be a participant all the time.

10. What becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?
(a) The origins of the universe.
(b) The existence of evil.
(c) The nature of physical matter.
(d) Death.

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

12. Of what is The Odyssey a parable according to Boorstin?
(a) The mystery of language.
(b) The mystery of death.
(c) The mystery of creation.
(d) The mystery of warfare.

13. What was Boccaccio's inspiration for the Decameron?
(a) The Wars of the Roses.
(b) Developments in the medieval church.
(c) The discovery of the New World.
(d) The plague.

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

15. What are hieroglyphs?
(a) No one knows.
(b) An early alphabet.
(c) Symbols of a dead language.
(d) A pictorial language.