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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. How did Dostoevsky view Western science according to Boorstin?

2. What was the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge?

3. How did the orchestra change in the fifteenth century according to Boorstin?

4. What does Boorstin say Bruneleschi and Alberti rediscovered?

5. For what is Faust a metaphor according to Boorstin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was Gibbon's innovation?

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

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

6. How does Boorstin characterize Monet's accomplishment?

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

8. What, in Boorstin's opinion, is calligraphy's place in the history of human culture?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assess the proposition that Boorstin's inclusion of non-Western art and culture amounts to tokenism that reflects a Western bias.

Essay Topic 2

Defend or refute the proposition that in its evolution, modern art has given the individual the ability to become immortal through his self-expression. Use examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Would you recommend The Creators? For what purposes would you recommend The Creators, and what kinds of readers would you not recommend it? What book would you recommend that would cover the same material or provide the same emotional experience in a different way?

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