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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 Milton wrote after Comus and Lycidas?
(a) Prose.
(b) Drama.
(c) Criticism.
(d) Poetry.

2. Where was the skyscraper born?
(a) London.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) San Francisco.

3. What does Boorstin say Giotto di Bondone was the first Western artist to do?
(a) Depict the human nude.
(b) Include text in his paintings.
(c) Tell stories in paintings.
(d) Bring Christian archetypes to life.

4. What does Alphonse Daudet claim music is in his epigraph to Part 9?
(a) A religion.
(b) Another planet.
(c) The essence of language.
(d) The perfection of human emotion.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what condition does art aspire according to Pater's epigraph for Part 9?

2. How does Boorstin characterize Stravinsky's role in music?

3. How did the orchestra change in the fifteenth century according to Boorstin?

4. In what tradition was Cristabel written according to Boorstin?

5. What does Boorstin say Rousseau's Confessions are a self-defense against?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Boorstin say is Dostoevsky's contribution to imaginative literature?

2. How did dance change during the transition into modernity?

3. How does Proust change the way we understand imagination in modern times?

4. When does Boorstin say authors became the subject of their own writing?

5. How does Boorstin characterize Monet's accomplishment?

6. In what way did T. S. Eliot change the course of literature's evolution?

7. How did photography change the nature of art and representation in Boorstin's account?

8. What does Boorstin say is Ben Franklin's contribution to the art of imaginative life?

9. What is the skyscraper's role in the development of the human imagination?

10. What innovation does Boorstin say Leonardo da Vinci made in imaginative art?

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