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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) The soul.
(b) Civilization.
(c) The self.
(d) God.

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

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

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

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

6. In what tradition was Cristabel written according to Boorstin?
(a) Classical symmetry.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Baroque ornamentation.
(d) Gothic Romance.

7. Mozart composed eight symphonies, four divertimentos and some sacred works in a few months at what age?
(a) 11.
(b) 16.
(c) 22.
(d) 4.

8. What does Boorstin say was the second step in the use of skyscrapers?
(a) National pride.
(b) Industry.
(c) Architectural form.
(d) Surveillance.

9. For what does Boorstin say skyscrapers were first used?
(a) Industry.
(b) Commerce.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Defense.

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

11. How does Boorstin characterize Of Education?
(a) A farce about religious education.
(b) A manifesto of humanism.
(c) A satire on learning.
(d) A morality tale about experience and wisdom.

12. What does Boorstin say Milton wrote after Comus and Lycidas?
(a) Criticism.
(b) Prose.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Drama.

13. 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.

14. What artistic movement does Boorstin say Monet initiated?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Impressionism.
(d) Dadaism.

15. In what does Zola say man DID NOT stop believing in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) Nature.
(b) Immortality.
(c) God.
(d) The future.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Leonardo da Vinci protected?

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

3. What does Alphonse Daudet claim music is in his epigraph to Part 9?

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

5. In what period was the symphony created?

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