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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 Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
(a) The first post-modern poem.
(b) The first modernist poem.
(c) The last Medieval chanson.
(d) The first confessional poem.

2. What does Boorstin say Bruneleschi and Alberti rediscovered?
(a) Linear perspective.
(b) Flying buttresses.
(c) Stained glass windows.
(d) Gothic cathedrals.

3. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?
(a) 1580.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1607.
(d) 1620.

4. What does Boorstin say Eliot tried to express in "The Waste Land"?
(a) Incoherence.
(b) Redemption.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Compensation.

5. What does Boorstin say Michelangelo inspired people to idealize?
(a) Aristocrats.
(b) God.
(c) Man.
(d) Genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chaucer say in the epigraph to Part 8?

2. What does Boorstin say was the second step in the use of skyscrapers?

3. How did Benjamin Franklin innovate in the autobiographical form?

4. What does Boorstin say artists began to see in modern art?

5. What did the Slavonic Dostoevskian character represent for the Western imagination according to Boorstin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Boorstin characterize Johann Sebastian Bach's contribution to human imaginative work?

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

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

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

7. What does Boorstin say is William Wordsworth's contribution to imaginative culture?

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

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

10. How did Beethoven change the nature of music according to Boorstin?

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