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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Boorstin say is unique about Richard Wagner?
(a) His work embodied religious ideals in new ways.
(b) His work was performed with modern orchestras for the first time.
(c) He was influential in both musical and literary history.
(d) His music created new philosophies.

4. How many paintings does Boorstin say da Vinci left?
(a) 17.
(b) 108.
(c) 39.
(d) 51.

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

6. What does Boorstin say Michelangelo inspired people to idealize?
(a) God.
(b) Aristocrats.
(c) Genius.
(d) Man.

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

8. Boorstin says that Dickens' work was a love affair with what?
(a) English history.
(b) The New World.
(c) The English people.
(d) Future technologies.

9. Where does Boorstin say Kafka's charm is to be found?
(a) In his affection for his own demise.
(b) In his absurdism.
(c) In his restraint from suicide.
(d) In his ambiguity.

10. When did Goethe finish Faust?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1832.

11. In what does Zola say man stopped believing in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) God.
(b) His own immortality.
(c) His own mortality.
(d) Himself.

12. What does Boorstin say was combined in the skyscraper?
(a) Water and stone.
(b) Past and future.
(c) Form and function.
(d) Man and machine.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bondone create according to Boorstin?

2. What made Lyrical Ballads revolutionary according to Boorstin?

3. Where did Dostoevsky gain the experience from which he wrote Crime and Punishment?

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

5. What artistic movement does Boorstin say Monet initiated?

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