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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. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?
(a) To use for writing.
(b) Wicked people.
(c) People who don't inquire into the world.
(d) People who ask too many questions.

2. What does Boorstin say Bruneleschi and Alberti rediscovered?
(a) Stained glass windows.
(b) Gothic cathedrals.
(c) Linear perspective.
(d) Flying buttresses.

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

4. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?
(a) He has always existed and still waits to come into existence.
(b) He exists but his qualities can not be known.
(c) He is a creation of mankind but exists beyond human comprehension.
(d) He speaks in texts but means all things.

5. What are hieroglyphs?
(a) Symbols of a dead language.
(b) No one knows.
(c) A pictorial language.
(d) An early alphabet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?

3. What was the purpose of Don Quixote in Boorstin's account?

4. What else did Thespis invent?

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

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