2. What does Boorstin say is the difference between tragedy and comedy?
(a) Tragedy ended in death, comedy in marriage.
(b) Tragedy dealt with long-ago events, comedy with the present.
(c) Tragedy was for intimate gatherings, comedy for large audiences.
(d) Tragedy dealt with kings, comedy with commoners.

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

4. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?
(a) Man's determination to find food sources.
(b) Man's determination to find origins.
(c) Man's attempt to measure and regulate his environment.
(d) Man's desire to live forever.

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

6. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?
(a) As an echo of God's creation.
(b) As dangerous.
(c) As usurping Allah's prerogative.
(d) As innate to human beings.

7. What does Boorstin say Christianity got people to see?
(a) The nature of divinity.
(b) Time as cyclical.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The future.

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

9. What did the dithyramb and its derivatives do in Greek history?
(a) Explore the territories around Greece.
(b) Provide a foundation for mathematical logic.
(c) Define Greek metaphysics.
(d) Glorify Greece.

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

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

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

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

14. What does the dome of the Pantheon proclaim according to Boorstin?
(a) Man's ability to fill a void with his own creation.
(b) Man's ability to provide houses for his gods.
(c) Man's ability to defy gravity in building.
(d) Man's ability to enclose a sacred precinct.

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