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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 is Buddhism's response to the questions of living?
(a) To meditate but not to settle for any answer.
(b) To refer all questions to sacred texts.
(c) Not to answer.
(d) To trust whatever the heart says.

2. What did the dithyramb and its derivatives do in Greek history?
(a) Provide a foundation for mathematical logic.
(b) Define Greek metaphysics.
(c) Explore the territories around Greece.
(d) Glorify Greece.

3. What did Greeks discover through drama according to Boorstin?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Heroes of myth.
(c) The laws of fate.
(d) The laws of the state.

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

5. What does Boorstin say man discovered in Section 24: The Birth of the Spectator?
(a) That he need not be a participant all the time.
(b) That crowds have personalities of their own.
(c) That there is safety in crowds.
(d) That the universe does not have anything to do with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Thespis invent, according to Boorstin?

2. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?

3. In what does Boorstin say Rabelais' book was an act of faith?

4. Of what is The Odyssey a parable according to Boorstin?

5. What does Boorstin say the Renaissance offered to Shakespeare?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Boorstin describe the birth of drama?

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

5. How does Boorstin characterize the Gothic style of art?

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

7. What contribution did the Egyptians make in building the pyramids?

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

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

10. What contribution does Boorstin say Boethius made to imaginative culture?

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