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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. With what does Boorstin say men had to struggle in order to believe in the power of human creativity?
(a) Greek grammar.
(b) The charm of Greek philosophy.
(c) The logic of Greek mathematicians.
(d) The awe of Hebraic religion.

2. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?
(a) Cycles to develop through.
(b) An explanation of where evil came from.
(c) A direction toward God.
(d) An end to their sufferings.

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

4. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?
(a) To do God's will.
(b) To create gods.
(c) To free man from God.
(d) To make something out of nothing.

5. What did Thespis invent, according to Boorstin?
(a) Drama.
(b) Comedy.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Tragedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the source of the epigraph that opens The Creators?

2. What did Confucius say comprised wisdom?

3. How does Boorstin characterize the Decameron?

4. What did Saint Ambrose invent?

5. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Boorstin mean when he says that theology was born in Greek philosophy?

3. What improvement did the Greeks make in architecture?

4. How does Boorstin describe the birth of prose?

5. How does Boorstin describe the birth of hymns?

6. How does Boorstin characterize Cervantes' contribution to imaginative literature?

7. What is a dithyramb and what is its place in imaginative culture?

8. What contribution did the Egyptians make to writing and self-expression?

9. What explanation does Boorstin offer for the cave paintings of Altamira, Lascaux and Les Trois Freres?

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

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