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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. When did men begin to make images of themselves?
(a) Upper Paleolithic period.
(b) Middle Paleolithic period.
(c) Mesolithic period.
(d) Early Paleolithic period.

2. Of what are Chaucer's Canterbury Tales comprised?
(a) 100 novellas.
(b) A prolonged odyssey.
(c) 24 books of narrative about war.
(d) 31 poetic narratives.

3. What does Boorstin say is the difference between tragedy and comedy?
(a) Tragedy dealt with long-ago events, comedy with the present.
(b) Tragedy dealt with kings, comedy with commoners.
(c) Tragedy ended in death, comedy in marriage.
(d) Tragedy was for intimate gatherings, comedy for large audiences.

4. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?
(a) Exceed his model.
(b) Leave some flaw by which the work could be distinguished from the model.
(c) Perfect his model.
(d) Capture his model.

5. What does Thoreau say, in the epigraph to Part 7, it takes to speak the truth?
(a) A commitment to make people see it.
(b) Eyes to perceive it.
(c) An understanding of what the consequences will be, for the people who don't want to hear it.
(d) One to speak and one to listen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbé Suger say about how spirits can raise themselves to eternal things in the epigraph to Part 6?

2. Into what did Boethius want to inject Greek wisdom?

3. With what does Boorstin say men had to struggle in order to believe in the power of human creativity?

4. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?

5. What else did Thespis invent?

Short Essay Questions

1. What innovation did Dante introduce to Western culture?

2. How do Greek depictions compare with Egyptian symbols?

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

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

5. How does Boorstin characterize Shakespeare's role in the development of imaginative works?

6. How does Boorstin describe the Hindu contribution to imaginative culture?

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

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

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

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

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