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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 was the second step in the use of skyscrapers?
(a) Architectural form.
(b) National pride.
(c) Surveillance.
(d) Industry.

2. In what way is Moby Dick NOT a novel according to Boorstin?
(a) It lacks characterization and plot.
(b) It lacks antagonism and heroism.
(c) It lacks metaphor and allegory.
(d) It lacks historical attributes.

3. Where did Dostoevsky gain the experience from which he wrote Crime and Punishment?
(a) His parents' farm.
(b) Working in a factory.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Prison.

4. When did opera develop in Europe?
(a) Around 1600 in Italy.
(b) Around 1800 in Germany.
(c) Around 1550 in France.
(d) Around 1500 in England.

5. What does Boorstin say was combined in the skyscraper?
(a) Form and function.
(b) Water and stone.
(c) Man and machine.
(d) Past and future.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Boorstin's account, Michelangelo changed man from an imitation of nature to what?

2. How does Boorstin characterize the autobiography as a form?

3. How many paintings does Boorstin say da Vinci left?

4. What made Lyrical Ballads revolutionary according to Boorstin?

5. What does Boorstin say Michelangelo inspired people to idealize?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Boorstin characterize Dickens' contribution to imaginative culture?

2. Where does Boorstin put Kafka in his portrait of imaginative thinkers?

3. How does Boorstin describe the evolution of the orchestra over time?

4. How did painting begin to reflect the changes that were taking place in literature?

5. Why does Boorstin say Goethe's Faust is an important work?

6. How does Boorstin characterize Milton's contribution to imaginative culture?

7. How did visual arts change as artists came to appreciate the power of light?

8. What, in Boorstin's opinion, is calligraphy's place in the history of human culture?

9. What is the place of the essay in the history Boorstin is describing?

10. What does Boorstin say is Rousseau's contribution to the art of autobiography?

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