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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. How does Koestler characterize creativity in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) As a new form of learning.
(b) As a new language.
(c) As a new discipline.
(d) As a new form of philosophy.

2. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?
(a) Capture his model.
(b) Exceed his model.
(c) Leave some flaw by which the work could be distinguished from the model.
(d) Perfect his model.

3. Whose arguments allowed images of human figures to be created and displayed in Christianity?
(a) St. John of Damascus.
(b) St. Augustine.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) Plotinus.

4. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?
(a) 1580.
(b) 1607.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1620.

5. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?
(a) Truth.
(b) Himself.
(c) Power.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What history did Prescott and Parkman write?

2. What does Boorstin say man is finally learning to celebrate in Book 3?

3. How was Gibbon perceived in Boorstin's account?

4. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?

5. When were the cave drawings discovered?

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