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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. How does Boorstin characterize Hindu religion?
(a) Kathenotheism.
(b) Pantheism.
(c) Monotheism.
(d) Atheism.

2. What governs the relationship between mankind and Moses' God?
(a) The Old Testament.
(b) The fates.
(c) A covenant.
(d) Sacrifices.

3. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?
(a) Man's determination to find origins.
(b) Man's determination to find food sources.
(c) Man's attempt to measure and regulate his environment.
(d) Man's desire to live forever.

4. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?
(a) How mankind has invented itself.
(b) How mankind has manipulated its environment.
(c) How mankind has progressed through the ages.
(d) How mankind has come to face the question of its own survival.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say man discovered in Section 24: The Birth of the Spectator?

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

3. What did Thespis invent, according to Boorstin?

4. What does Boorstin say Moses introduced into Western culture?

5. What does Boorstin say Christianity got people to see?

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