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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) The view out of a window.
(b) Mimetic realism.
(c) The division of a canvas into allegorical and realist halves.
(d) Decorative cherubs.

2. What does Boorstin say Mozart said about dying?
(a) That he had not yet begun his real work.
(b) That he was dying before he could enjoy his talent.
(c) That he was the most fortunate man who had ever lived.
(d) That he had done all he meant to do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. When did opera develop in Europe?
(a) Around 1600 in Italy.
(b) Around 1550 in France.
(c) Around 1800 in Germany.
(d) Around 1500 in England.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the skyscraper born?

2. Mozart composed eight symphonies, four divertimentos and some sacred works in a few months at what age?

3. How does Boorstin characterize Wordsworth's best work?

4. What does Boorstin say Melville presents in Moby Dick?

5. How does Koestler characterize creativity in the epigraph to Book 3?

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