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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Melville say the sea and land are analogous in the epigraph to Part 12?
(a) Civilization.
(b) The soul.
(c) The self.
(d) God.

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

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

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

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

6. What did Gibbon say was the essence of history?
(a) Political movements.
(b) Human habits and utterances.
(c) Economies.
(d) Wars and elections.

7. Of what is the Florence Foundling Hospital the first according to Boorstin?
(a) Romantic buildings.
(b) Classical buildings.
(c) Renaissance buildings.
(d) Gothic buildings.

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. Who does Boorstin say Bach's audience was?
(a) The church and the public.
(b) The aristocratic court.
(c) The church.
(d) The military.

14. How does Boorstin characterize the Heroic American Literary Myth?
(a) A tale of shining visions fulfilled.
(b) A tale of brutality and crude mysticism.
(c) A tale of morality and sacrifice.
(d) A tale of revenge and madness.

15. With what does Boorstin say Alfred Stieglitz experimented?
(a) Exposures and negatives.
(b) Musical forms.
(c) Architectural forms.
(d) Capturing moving images.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Milton wrote after Comus and Lycidas?

2. What does Boorstin say Dostoevsky's novels do to Western values?

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

4. What does Boorstin say was the second step in the use of skyscrapers?

5. What does Boorstin say Michelangelo inspired people to idealize?

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