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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 does Boorstin say Leonardo da Vinci protected?
(a) The value of history.
(b) The idea of the future.
(c) Artistic independence.
(d) Traditional Christian figures.

2. Why are Muslims prohibited from making lasting images of human figures according to Boorstin?
(a) Because creativity is a divine right, not to be usurped.
(b) Because only God can make eternal images.
(c) Because of a general proscription of idolatry.
(d) Because it takes attention away from living figures.

3. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?
(a) Nomos.
(b) Logos.
(c) Techne.
(d) Pneuma.

4. What does each Tale in the Canterbury Tales have according to Boorstin?
(a) A moral.
(b) A devil figure.
(c) A pregnant woman.
(d) A villain.

5. What becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?
(a) The nature of physical matter.
(b) The existence of evil.
(c) Death.
(d) The origins of the universe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chaucer say in the epigraph to Part 8?

2. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?

3. What does Boorstin say is the difference between tragedy and comedy?

4. What did Greeks discover through drama according to Boorstin?

5. How many paintings does Boorstin say da Vinci left?

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