The Creators Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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The Creators Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first divinity according to the Rig Veda?

2. Who are the devas?

3. What does Abbé Suger say about how spirits can raise themselves to eternal things in the epigraph to Part 6?

4. How does Boorstin characterize Suger's creation at the St. Denis cathedral?

5. What does Horace say about the escaped word in the epigraph for Part 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Boorstin characterize Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?

2. How does Boorstin describe the birth of hymns?

3. What innovation do the Homeric epics represent in the culture of the imagination?

4. What does Boorstin say is the Koran's position on imaginative culture?

5. What does Boorstin mean when he says that theology was born in Greek philosophy?

6. What did Moses add to the culture of imagination?

7. How does Boorstin describe the Hindu contribution to imaginative culture?

8. What contribution does Boorstin say Boethius made to imaginative culture?

9. How do Greek depictions compare with Egyptian symbols?

10. What contribution did the Egyptians make in building the pyramids?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

Modern times are often described as either the summit of individual expression or the fragmentation of culture--but these are opposing concepts, and the opposition is always a tricky territory to navigate. How does Boorstin render these two trends, how does he reconcile them, and how does he account for the sense some people have that modern culture is a catastrophe from the perspective of the family or community?

Essay Topic 3

Boorstin ends the book with the optimistic description of film and tv as media that will reunite communities by holding people in thrall to the same moving images. Evaluate the value of this conclusion, based on your experiences, and also based on the criteria Boorstin used for evaluating the works he analyzes in the book.

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