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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Sections 17-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Boorstin say Afghanistani made possible according to Hindus?
(a) Transformation.
(b) Reincarnation.
(c) Sight.
(d) Strife.

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

4. 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) The origins of the universe.
(d) Death.

5. Who was the first divinity according to the Rig Veda?
(a) Darsan.
(b) Prajapati.
(c) Karma.
(d) Afghanistani.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Stonehenge consist?

2. When does Boorstin say Stonehenge was created?

3. Who are the devas?

4. What does Boorstin say is Buddhism's response to the questions of living?

5. On what was Roman architecture based according to Boorstin?

(see the answer key)

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