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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8, Sections 41-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the dithyramb and its derivatives do in Greek history?
(a) Glorify Greece.
(b) Explore the territories around Greece.
(c) Provide a foundation for mathematical logic.
(d) Define Greek metaphysics.

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

3. What was unique about the first literary work in Boorstin's account?
(a) It described the origins of the world.
(b) It was about the ancient past.
(c) It was in prose.
(d) It was in dactylic hexameter.

4. What does Boorstin say is the difference between tragedy and comedy?
(a) Tragedy was for intimate gatherings, comedy for large audiences.
(b) Tragedy dealt with long-ago events, comedy with the present.
(c) Tragedy dealt with kings, comedy with commoners.
(d) Tragedy ended in death, comedy in marriage.

5. What else did Thespis invent?
(a) The dramatic mask.
(b) The dithyramb.
(c) The monologue.
(d) The cult of Apollo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first literary work according to Boorstin?

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

3. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?

4. What does Virginia Woolf say, in the second epigraph to Part 7, about writing?

5. What becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?

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