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

2. What artistic movement does Boorstin say Monet initiated?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Dadaism.
(c) Realism.
(d) Impressionism.

3. Why did Dickens leave the public sphere?
(a) He went bankrupt.
(b) He was censored.
(c) He was arrested.
(d) His doctor warned him against public readings.

4. What did Bondone create according to Boorstin?
(a) A personal vision of Christian archetypes.
(b) Individuality in visual arts.
(c) Human figures who transcended religion.
(d) A new form of Christian allegory.

5. In what does Zola say man DID NOT stop believing in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) God.
(b) The future.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Boorstin characterize the form of Whitman's poetry?

2. Who does Boorstin say Bach's audience was?

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

4. What was startling about Leaves of Grass in Boorstin's account?

5. When did Bruneleschi make the Foundling Hospital in Florence?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Boorstin characterize Monet's accomplishment?

3. What was Gibbon's innovation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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