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

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

3. What happened to Milton before he wrote Paradise Lost?
(a) He nearly died.
(b) He lost his children.
(c) He went blind.
(d) He lost his wife.

4. What was novel about the essay according to Boorstin?
(a) It celebrated the self.
(b) It allowed for new definitions of community.
(c) It was combined fiction and non-fiction.
(d) It preserved traditional confessional literary traditions in a new form.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many paintings does Boorstin say da Vinci left?

2. What does Boorstin say Rousseau's Confessions are a self-defense against?

3. How does Boorstin characterize the Heroic American Literary Myth?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Boorstin characterize Michelangelo's contribution to human culture?

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

3. What is Coleridge's importance in imaginative literature according to Boorstin?

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

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

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

7. Where does Boorstin put Kafka in his portrait of imaginative thinkers?

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

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

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

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