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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What tradition did the Christian church follow in its churches?
(a) Greek temples.
(b) Roman temples.
(c) Jewish synagogues.
(d) Northern forests.

6. What was the purpose of Don Quixote in Boorstin's account?
(a) To kill off chivalric romances.
(b) To define the character of the Spanish people.
(c) To perfect the genre of chivalric romance.
(d) To return chivalric romances to their roots.

7. When did men begin to make images of themselves?
(a) Early Paleolithic period.
(b) Mesolithic period.
(c) Upper Paleolithic period.
(d) Middle Paleolithic period.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What was depicted in the first images?
(a) Animals.
(b) Abstract symbols.
(c) Men.
(d) The landscape.

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

15. What governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?
(a) The fates.
(b) A covenant.
(c) Sacrifices.
(d) The Old Testament.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbé Suger say about how spirits can raise themselves to eternal things in the epigraph to Part 6?

2. Why are Muslims prohibited from making lasting images of human figures according to Boorstin?

3. How long was it before Gothic art changed the style of European art and architecture in Boorstin's account?

4. What did Confucius say comprised wisdom?

5. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?

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