View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Boorstin characterize "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
(a) The first confessional poem.
(b) The first post-modern poem.
(c) The last Medieval chanson.
(d) The first modernist poem.

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

3. What did Kafka believe about the inner and outer selves according to Boorstin?
(a) They were capable of mystical harmonies.
(b) They were bent on destroying each other.
(c) They were mutually exclusive.
(d) They ran in separate ways.

4. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1607.
(c) 1580.
(d) 1620.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Mozart said about dying?

2. What does Boorstin say Giotto di Bondone was the first Western artist to do?

3. How does Boorstin characterize Stravinsky's role in music?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 698 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample