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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 is a dithyramb?
(a) A poem that commemorates a battle.
(b) A dance done to honor ancestors.
(c) A monument that commemorates a sacrifice.
(d) A song sung in honor of the god.

2. What experience does Boorstin say Dante described in the Divine Comedy?
(a) Doubt and rediscovery of faith.
(b) Birth into religion.
(c) Exile from life to death.
(d) The rites of passage.

3. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?
(a) The beginning of religion.
(b) Self-discovery.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) The beginning of language.

4. What was the special element of Gothic architecture in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Light.
(b) Symmetry.
(c) Color.
(d) Irregularity.

5. What does Abbé Suger say about how spirits can raise themselves to eternal things in the epigraph to Part 6?
(a) That it requires renunciation of the world.
(b) That it requires symbols of beauty.
(c) That it requires symbolic death, again and again.
(d) That it happens on its own.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say is the difference between tragedy and comedy?

2. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?

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

4. How does Boorstin characterize Suger's creation at the St. Denis cathedral?

5. What does Boorstin say Afghanistani made possible according to Hindus?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Boorstin describe the birth of hymns?

2. How does Boorstin describe the birth of drama?

3. How does Boorstin describe the difference between tragedy and comedy?

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

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

6. How does Boorstin characterize Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?

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

8. What did Moses add to the culture of imagination?

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

10. How does Boorstin describe the birth of prose?

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