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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Chaucer say in the epigraph to Part 8?
(a) That a liar is the most honest of men.
(b) That history is made on the backs of common men.
(c) That life is short and craft is hard to learn.
(d) That the lives of the common people are themselves art.

4. What does Boorstin say does the artist's job in photography?
(a) The developer.
(b) Light.
(c) The machine.
(d) The image itself.

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

11. What does Boorstin say man is finally learning to celebrate in Book 3?
(a) The human masses.
(b) Each individual.
(c) Industry.
(d) The Other.

12. Whom does Boorstin say was the first biographer?
(a) Dr. Samuel Johnson.
(b) James Boswell.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Shakespeare.

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

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

15. Advances in what field made it possible for calligraphy to be an art in Chinese culture according to Boorstin?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Trade.
(d) Paper making.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bondone create according to Boorstin?

2. How does Boorstin characterize the Heroic American Literary Myth?

3. Into what is man split according to Emerson in the epigraph to Part 11?

4. Who does Boorstin say Bach's audience was?

5. What happened to Milton before he wrote Paradise Lost?

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