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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boorstin say artists began to see in modern art?
(a) Evanescent moments.
(b) Platonic forms.
(c) Transcendent forms.
(d) Traditions.

2. What motif did Bruneleschi and Alberti introduce to Western art?
(a) The view out of a window.
(b) The division of a canvas into allegorical and realist halves.
(c) Decorative cherubs.
(d) Mimetic realism.

3. How does Boorstin characterize Stravinsky's role in music?
(a) The voice of the past.
(b) The prophet of harmony.
(c) The apostle of modernism.
(d) The philosopher of sound.

4. What was the subject of Monet's art?
(a) Human figures.
(b) Nature.
(c) His own perceptions.
(d) Architecture.

5. In what period was the symphony created?
(a) Gothic.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Renaissance.
(d) Baroque.

6. What does Boorstin say Leonardo da Vinci protected?
(a) The idea of the future.
(b) Artistic independence.
(c) Traditional Christian figures.
(d) The value of history.

7. How did the orchestra change in the fifteenth century according to Boorstin?
(a) They swelled to unprecedented size.
(b) Conductors were introduced to coordinate parts.
(c) Composers began to employ new forms of harmony and dissonance.
(d) Instruments were grouped into families.

8. For what is Faust a metaphor according to Boorstin?
(a) The dissatisfied modern self.
(b) The unconscious.
(c) The conscience.
(d) The questing soul.

9. Out of what did Milton create poetry in Boorstin's account?
(a) Man's struggles with good and evil.
(b) Man's diabolical nature.
(c) Man's difficulties with right and wrong.
(d) Man's adventures in choice.

10. What happened to Milton before he wrote Paradise Lost?
(a) He lost his wife.
(b) He nearly died.
(c) He lost his children.
(d) He went blind.

11. What does Boorstin say Eliot tried to express in "The Waste Land"?
(a) Redemption.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Compensation.
(d) Incoherence.

12. What does Boorstin say was Milton's contribution to poetry?
(a) He refined the language and made it more economical.
(b) He invented new poetic forms.
(c) He characterized Satan in a way that would endure for centuries.
(d) He brought the English language to life.

13. When did opera develop in Europe?
(a) Around 1550 in France.
(b) Around 1500 in England.
(c) Around 1600 in Italy.
(d) Around 1800 in Germany.

14. In what way is Moby Dick NOT a novel according to Boorstin?
(a) It lacks historical attributes.
(b) It lacks antagonism and heroism.
(c) It lacks metaphor and allegory.
(d) It lacks characterization and plot.

15. What is the relationship between teacher and learner according to the Koestler quote in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) They are the same person.
(b) The learner has more anxiety than ever.
(c) The learner has more opportunity than ever.
(d) The teacher has less authority than earlier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say is unique about Richard Wagner?

2. Who does Boorstin say Bach's audience was?

3. Whom does Boorstin say was the first biographer?

4. When did Bruneleschi make the Foundling Hospital in Florence?

5. Where does Boorstin say Kafka's charm is to be found?

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