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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Sections 9-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?
(a) To free man from God.
(b) To make something out of nothing.
(c) To do God's will.
(d) To create gods.

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

4. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?
(a) The symmetries in nature.
(b) The ideals of the philosophers.
(c) The human body.
(d) The harmony of the spheres.

5. Which kind of creation does Boorstin NOT describe in The Creators?
(a) Technology.
(b) Visual arts.
(c) Literature.
(d) Music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the dome of the Pantheon proclaim according to Boorstin?

2. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?

3. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?

4. What is the source of the epigraph that opens The Creators?

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

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