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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Boorstin's account, Michelangelo changed man from an imitation of nature to what?
(a) An example for nature.
(b) The measure of nature.
(c) A recreation of nature.
(d) A perfection of nature.

4. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?
(a) 1607.
(b) 1620.
(c) 1580.
(d) 1825.

5. How was Gibbon perceived in Boorstin's account?
(a) As a leading adventure novelist.
(b) As a pornographic philosopher.
(c) As the ultimate humanist historian.
(d) As a prophet of communism.

6. What does Boorstin say Rousseau's Confessions are a self-defense against?
(a) Inherited accusations.
(b) An imaginary conspiracy.
(c) Political intrigue.
(d) His own human nature.

7. Into what is man split according to Emerson in the epigraph to Part 11?
(a) Half himself, half his spouse.
(b) Half his biology, half his spirit.
(c) Half his history, half his opportunity.
(d) Half himself, half his expression.

8. In what way does Boorstin say Milton was a strong individual?
(a) He never belonged to a sect.
(b) He invented his own mythical characters and religion.
(c) He exiled his children for their unconventional religious views.
(d) He did not subscribe to conventional religious views.

9. Where did Dostoevsky gain the experience from which he wrote Crime and Punishment?
(a) Prison.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Working in a factory.
(d) His parents' farm.

10. What did Kafka believe about the inner and outer selves according to Boorstin?
(a) They were mutually exclusive.
(b) They were capable of mystical harmonies.
(c) They were bent on destroying each other.
(d) They ran in separate ways.

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

12. Where was the skyscraper born?
(a) London.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York.

13. What history did Prescott and Parkman write?
(a) Of the future unification of mankind.
(b) Of the literary accomplishments Europeans brought to America.
(c) Of European conquest of Native Americans.
(d) Of the coming technological changes in Western culture.

14. How does Boorstin characterize "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
(a) The first post-modern poem.
(b) The last Medieval chanson.
(c) The first confessional poem.
(d) The first modernist poem.

15. What does Boorstin say Melville presents in Moby Dick?
(a) The cruel heart of American industry.
(b) The isolation of American individuals.
(c) The mystery of the self.
(d) The stoicism of the American self.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say artists began to see in modern art?

2. What does Boorstin say was combined in the skyscraper?

3. Where does Goethe say the shadows are deepest in the epigraph to Part 10?

4. To what condition does art aspire according to Pater's epigraph for Part 9?

5. What did Bondone create according to Boorstin?

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