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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Moses introduced into Western culture?
(a) The idea of human sacrifice.
(b) The idea of a single omnipotent creator.
(c) The notion of eternal reoccurrence.
(d) The idea of original sin.

2. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?
(a) Techne.
(b) Logos.
(c) Nomos.
(d) Pneuma.

3. What was unique about the first literary work in Boorstin's account?
(a) It was about the ancient past.
(b) It described the origins of the world.
(c) It was in prose.
(d) It was in dactylic hexameter.

4. What does The Consolation of Philosophy explain?
(a) How to live in a world without God.
(b) How to reinvent yourself as a religious person.
(c) How to see God's will in events.
(d) How to distinguish God's way of knowing from Man's.

5. What does Boorstin say was absent from the Decameron?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Morals.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thoreau say, in the epigraph to Part 7, it takes to speak the truth?

2. Who was the first divinity according to the Rig Veda?

3. What was Boccaccio's inspiration for the Decameron?

4. How does Boorstin characterize Hindu religion?

5. What was the first literary work according to Boorstin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Boccaccio's contribution to Western culture?

2. What improvement did the Greeks make in architecture?

3. How do Greek depictions compare with Egyptian symbols?

4. What does Boorstin say is the Koran's position on imaginative culture?

5. How does Boorstin say the Japanese differ from Westerners in their architectural approach?

6. How does Boorstin characterize the Confucian teachings?

7. What does Boorstin say is the importance of megaliths?

8. What was St. Augustine's contribution to imaginative culture according to Boorstin?

9. What is the purpose of life in Buddhist teachings?

10. What innovation do the Homeric epics represent in the culture of the imagination?

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