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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Sections 23-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Moses introduced into Western culture?
(a) The notion of eternal reoccurrence.
(b) The idea of original sin.
(c) The idea of a single omnipotent creator.
(d) The idea of human sacrifice.

2. When does Boorstin say Stonehenge was created?
(a) 10,000 B.C.
(b) 5,000 B.C.
(c) 2,000 B.C.
(d) 500 A.D.

3. What does Boorstin see in men making images of men?
(a) Self-discovery.
(b) Consciousness.
(c) The beginning of language.
(d) The beginning of religion.

4. For what does Boorstin say the Pyramids were built in Egypt?
(a) Housing the dead pharaohs.
(b) Measuring the progress of the heavens.
(c) Challenging the gods.
(d) Proclaiming the Egyptians' power as a people.

5. What does the third-eye represent in Hindu art?
(a) Ancestors watching over people.
(b) Man's self-awareness.
(c) The ability of special men to see beyond physical sight.
(d) The vision men share with the gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?

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

3. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?

4. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?

5. How did the Greeks see architecture according to Boorstin?

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