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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 Mozart said about dying?
(a) That he was dying before he could enjoy his talent.
(b) That he was the most fortunate man who had ever lived.
(c) That he had not yet begun his real work.
(d) That he had done all he meant to do.

2. In what does Zola say man stopped believing in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) God.
(b) Himself.
(c) His own immortality.
(d) His own mortality.

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

4. How does Boorstin characterize the form of Whitman's poetry?
(a) Modernist.
(b) Post-modern.
(c) Symmetrical.
(d) Unconventional.

5. To what does Melville say the sea and land are analogous in the epigraph to Part 12?
(a) Civilization.
(b) God.
(c) The soul.
(d) The self.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is Faust a metaphor according to Boorstin?

2. For what does Boorstin say skyscrapers were first used?

3. What does Boorstin say was Milton's contribution to poetry?

4. In what way is Moby Dick NOT a novel according to Boorstin?

5. What does Boorstin say is unique about Richard Wagner?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Boorstin say Pickering and Prescott have in common, and what is their role in the development of the Western imaginative consciousness?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What was Gibbon's innovation?

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

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