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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the first literary work according to Boorstin?
(a) Petronius' Satyricon.
(b) Thucydides' history.
(c) Thales of Miletus' history.
(d) Herodotus' history.

3. How did the Greeks see architecture according to Boorstin?
(a) As the center of the economy.
(b) As houses for the soul.
(c) As temples for the gods.
(d) As the heart of the people.

4. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?
(a) The symmetries in nature.
(b) The harmony of the spheres.
(c) The ideals of the philosophers.
(d) The human body.

5. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?
(a) How mankind has invented itself.
(b) How mankind has come to face the question of its own survival.
(c) How mankind has progressed through the ages.
(d) How mankind has manipulated its environment.

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

7. Of what are Chaucer's Canterbury Tales comprised?
(a) 31 poetic narratives.
(b) A prolonged odyssey.
(c) 24 books of narrative about war.
(d) 100 novellas.

8. What does The Consolation of Philosophy explain?
(a) How to reinvent yourself as a religious person.
(b) How to live in a world without God.
(c) How to see God's will in events.
(d) How to distinguish God's way of knowing from Man's.

9. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?
(a) Gain.
(b) Immortality.
(c) Fame.
(d) Rebellion against God.

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

11. What was the special element of Gothic architecture in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Symmetry.
(b) Color.
(c) Light.
(d) Irregularity.

12. Who are the devas?
(a) Syrian warriors.
(b) Mesopotamian scribes.
(c) Buddhist monks.
(d) Hindu gods.

13. What is a dithyramb?
(a) A monument that commemorates a sacrifice.
(b) A song sung in honor of the god.
(c) A dance done to honor ancestors.
(d) A poem that commemorates a battle.

14. How long was it before Gothic art changed the style of European art and architecture in Boorstin's account?
(a) A thousand years.
(b) Five hundred years.
(c) Two thousand years.
(d) A hundred years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the source of the epigraph that opens The Creators?

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

3. What becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?

4. What did Thespis invent, according to Boorstin?

5. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?

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