2. What does Boorstin say the Renaissance offered to Shakespeare?
(a) Historically new material for his plays.
(b) A community of spectators.
(c) New technology to react against and to use in his plays.
(d) New problems in human experience.

3. What should be the outcome of art according to the Byron epigraph?
(a) Replacement of God.
(b) Emulation of God.
(c) Heroic beauty.
(d) Perfection of human nature.

4. What does Boorstin say Afghanistani made possible according to Hindus?
(a) Sight.
(b) Transformation.
(c) Reincarnation.
(d) Strife.

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

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

7. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?
(a) The beginning of language.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) Self-discovery.
(d) The beginning of religion.

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

9. In what does Boorstin say Pantagruel luxuriates?
(a) Vulgarity.
(b) Devotion.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Divine sensualism.

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

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

12. How does Boorstin characterize Philo of Alexandria's view of philosophy?
(a) He sees it as the true religion.
(b) He sees it as the language of human logic.
(c) He sees it as the handmaiden of theology.
(d) He sees it as a temptation to evil.

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

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

15. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?
(a) He is a creation of mankind but exists beyond human comprehension.
(b) He has always existed and still waits to come into existence.
(c) He speaks in texts but means all things.
(d) He exists but his qualities can not be known.