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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 does Boorstin say Bach's audience was?

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

3. What did Gibbon add to the genre of human comedy according to Boorstin?

4. What did Gibbon say was the essence of history?

5. Boorstin says that Dickens' work was a love affair with what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Boorstin say Goethe's Faust is an important work?

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

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

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

9. In what way did T. S. Eliot change the course of literature's evolution?

10. How does Boorstin characterize Monet's accomplishment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of The Creators. What is this book's place in culture? What are its uses? Who is its audience? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on his style and content. What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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