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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 11, Sections 57-60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Milton wrote after Comus and Lycidas?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Criticism.
(c) Drama.
(d) Prose.

2. What did Gibbon say was the essence of history?
(a) Wars and elections.
(b) Human habits and utterances.
(c) Political movements.
(d) Economies.

3. What history did Prescott and Parkman write?
(a) Of European conquest of Native Americans.
(b) Of the literary accomplishments Europeans brought to America.
(c) Of the future unification of mankind.
(d) Of the coming technological changes in Western culture.

4. Into what is man split according to Emerson in the epigraph to Part 11?
(a) Half his history, half his opportunity.
(b) Half his biology, half his spirit.
(c) Half himself, half his expression.
(d) Half himself, half his spouse.

5. What was depicted in the first images?
(a) Abstract symbols.
(b) Men.
(c) Animals.
(d) The landscape.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Koestler characterize creativity in the epigraph to Book 3?

2. How did Benjamin Franklin innovate in the autobiographical form?

3. In what does Zola say man stopped believing in the epigraph to Book 3?

4. What does Boorstin say was Milton's contribution to poetry?

5. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?

(see the answer key)

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