2. What fear did St. Ambrose's creation allay?
(a) Of unsuitable music entering the church.
(b) Of unseemly literature entering the church canon.
(c) Of buildings that rendered prayer impossible.
(d) Of drabness in church literature.

3. To what use did Romans put sculpture according to Boorstin?
(a) Holding up buildings.
(b) Memorializing the dead.
(c) Marking territories.
(d) Teaching anatomy.

4. Who was the first divinity according to the Rig Veda?
(a) Karma.
(b) Afghanistani.
(c) Darsan.
(d) Prajapati.

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

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

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

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

9. What experience does Boorstin say Dante described in the Divine Comedy?
(a) Doubt and rediscovery of faith.
(b) Exile from life to death.
(c) The rites of passage.
(d) Birth into religion.

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

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

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

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

14. What does Abbé Suger say about how spirits can raise themselves to eternal things in the epigraph to Part 6?
(a) That it requires symbolic death, again and again.
(b) That it happens on its own.
(c) That it requires symbols of beauty.
(d) That it requires renunciation of the world.

15. Why is Dante described as the founder of modern literature in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Because the Divine Comedy is autobiographical.
(b) Because the Divine Comedy was the first printed book after the Bible.
(c) Because the Divine Comedy externalized a dialogue that would normally have remained internal.
(d) Because the Divine Comedy represents a new cosmogony.