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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 Boorstin characterize the autobiography as a form?
(a) An objective account of a person's feelings and language.
(b) A shifting subject viewed from a shifting perspective.
(c) A rebellion against the act of being misread.
(d) A scientific glimpse into the workings of the self.

2. How was Gibbon perceived in Boorstin's account?
(a) As a pornographic philosopher.
(b) As a prophet of communism.
(c) As a leading adventure novelist.
(d) As the ultimate humanist historian.

3. When were the cave drawings discovered?
(a) 1800s.
(b) 1700s.
(c) 1600s.
(d) 1900s.

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

5. What is the relationship between teacher and learner according to the Koestler quote in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) They are the same person.
(b) The learner has more anxiety than ever.
(c) The learner has more opportunity than ever.
(d) The teacher has less authority than earlier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was novel about the essay according to Boorstin?

2. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?

3. When did men begin to make images of themselves?

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

5. To what use did Romans put sculpture according to Boorstin?

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