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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. How does Boorstin characterize the Decameron?
(a) Panoramic.
(b) Autobiographical.
(c) Chaste.
(d) Sacred.

2. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?
(a) How mankind has invented itself.
(b) How mankind has come to face the question of its own survival.
(c) How mankind has manipulated its environment.
(d) How mankind has progressed through the ages.

3. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?
(a) People who don't inquire into the world.
(b) People who ask too many questions.
(c) To use for writing.
(d) Wicked people.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first literary work according to Boorstin?

2. Of what are Chaucer's Canterbury Tales comprised?

3. What was the special element of Gothic architecture in Boorstin's opinion?

4. Who was Boethius?

5. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Boorstin describe the birth of drama?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Boorstin describe the birth of prose?

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

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

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