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

2. How did Dostoevsky view Western science according to Boorstin?
(a) As primitive superstition.
(b) As a denial of freedom.
(c) As materialistic determinism.
(d) As social Darwinism.

3. What does Boorstin say Dostoevsky's novels do to Western values?
(a) Annihilate them.
(b) Besiege them.
(c) Reject them.
(d) Embrace them.

4. What does Boorstin say was combined in the skyscraper?
(a) Past and future.
(b) Form and function.
(c) Man and machine.
(d) Water and stone.

5. What did the Slavonic Dostoevskian character represent for the Western imagination according to Boorstin?
(a) Experiences at the heart of Western consciousness.
(b) The duality present in Western consciousness.
(c) Experiences beyond the Western consciousness.
(d) The primitive memories out of which Western consciousness arose.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Boorstin characterize the autobiography as a form?

3. What does Boorstin say Michelangelo inspired people to idealize?

4. What was the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Boorstin characterize Dickens' contribution to imaginative culture?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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