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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 Boorstin say Bruneleschi and Alberti rediscovered?
(a) Flying buttresses.
(b) Gothic cathedrals.
(c) Linear perspective.
(d) Stained glass windows.

2. Where did Dostoevsky gain the experience from which he wrote Crime and Punishment?
(a) His parents' farm.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Prison.
(d) Working in a factory.

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

4. What did modern dance claim to be according to Boorstin?
(a) The physical expression of Western philosophy.
(b) The art of the future.
(c) The art of movement.
(d) The daughter of ballet.

5. For what is Faust a metaphor according to Boorstin?
(a) The dissatisfied modern self.
(b) The conscience.
(c) The questing soul.
(d) The unconscious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say T.S. Eliot believed poetry was about?

2. Where does Goethe say the shadows are deepest in the epigraph to Part 10?

3. How did Dostoevsky view Western science according to Boorstin?

4. For what does Boorstin say skyscrapers were first used?

5. What did Kafka believe about the inner and outer selves according to Boorstin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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