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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 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) Pneuma.
(d) Nomos.

2. Whose arguments allowed images of human figures to be created and displayed in Christianity?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) St. Augustine.
(c) St. John of Damascus.
(d) Plotinus.

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

4. How does Boorstin characterize Hindu religion?
(a) Monotheism.
(b) Atheism.
(c) Kathenotheism.
(d) Pantheism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Boethius?

2. How does Boorstin characterize the nature of Gothic art?

3. What is a dithyramb?

4. What was the Romans' principal building material in Boorstin's opinion?

5. What does the dome of the Pantheon proclaim according to Boorstin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Boorstin describe the birth of hymns?

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

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

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

5. What improvement did the Greeks make in architecture?

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

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

8. How do Muslims differ from Greeks and Christians in their approach to making images?

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

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

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