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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 Bruneleschi and Alberti rediscovered?
(a) Flying buttresses.
(b) Stained glass windows.
(c) Gothic cathedrals.
(d) Linear perspective.

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

3. To what condition does art aspire according to Pater's epigraph for Part 9?
(a) Music.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Religion.
(d) Science.

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

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

6. How does Boorstin characterize the form of Whitman's poetry?
(a) Symmetrical.
(b) Modernist.
(c) Post-modern.
(d) Unconventional.

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

8. On what did Melville reflect in Moby Dick according to Boorstin?
(a) The problem of indigenous culture in the New World.
(b) American industrial expansion.
(c) The paradox of good and evil.
(d) American exceptionalism.

9. What did modern dance claim to be according to Boorstin?
(a) The physical expression of Western philosophy.
(b) The art of movement.
(c) The art of the future.
(d) The daughter of ballet.

10. When did Goethe start Faust?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1770.

11. What did Bondone create according to Boorstin?
(a) A personal vision of Christian archetypes.
(b) Human figures who transcended religion.
(c) A new form of Christian allegory.
(d) Individuality in visual arts.

12. What was novel about the essay according to Boorstin?
(a) It allowed for new definitions of community.
(b) It preserved traditional confessional literary traditions in a new form.
(c) It was combined fiction and non-fiction.
(d) It celebrated the self.

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

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

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. Whom does Boorstin say was the first biographer?

2. What does Boorstin say T.S. Eliot believed poetry was about?

3. Why did Dickens leave the public sphere?

4. What was the subject of Monet's art?

5. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?

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