2. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?
(a) It became monstrous.
(b) It became more formal.
(c) It became more natural.
(d) It became more ideal.

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

4. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?
(a) Cycles to develop through.
(b) An explanation of where evil came from.
(c) An end to their sufferings.
(d) A direction toward God.

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

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

7. Which kind of creation does Boorstin NOT describe in The Creators?
(a) Technology.
(b) Music.
(c) Literature.
(d) Visual arts.

8. What does Boorstin say Christianity helped man discover?
(a) Man's power to control nature.
(b) The New World.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Man's power to create.

9. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?
(a) Religion.
(b) Power.
(c) Himself.
(d) Truth.

10. Why does Boorstin say people see artists as godlike?
(a) Because they repeat the divine act of bringing things into existence.
(b) Because they live forever in their work.
(c) Because artists are so often unruly.
(d) Because they are mystified by the power to create.

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

12. Who was Boethius?
(a) A philosopher of Rome.
(b) A Gothic architect.
(c) A counselor to King Theodoric.
(d) A Syrian poet.

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

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

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