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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. To what condition does art aspire according to Pater's epigraph for Part 9?
(a) Science.
(b) Music.
(c) Religion.
(d) Democracy.

2. What made Lyrical Ballads revolutionary according to Boorstin?
(a) It turned each individual into a microcosm of the universe.
(b) It attributed unheard-of political agency to each individual.
(c) It made poetry closer to lived experience.
(d) It refined poetic forms in their most perfect crystallization.

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

4. What motif did Bruneleschi and Alberti introduce to Western art?
(a) Mimetic realism.
(b) The division of a canvas into allegorical and realist halves.
(c) Decorative cherubs.
(d) The view out of a window.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Alphonse Daudet claim music is in his epigraph to Part 9?

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

4. What does Boorstin say does the artist's job in photography?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What was Gibbon's innovation?

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

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

10. Where does Melville's Moby Dick fit in Boorstin's narrative?

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