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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. Of what does Stonehenge consist?
(a) An elongated cross.
(b) Numerous figures carved in chalk on hillsides.
(c) Two circles of stones.
(d) A stone temple and courtyard.

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

3. Why does Boorstin say people see artists as godlike?
(a) Because they live forever in their work.
(b) Because they are mystified by the power to create.
(c) Because artists are so often unruly.
(d) Because they repeat the divine act of bringing things into existence.

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

5. What does Boorstin say Christianity got people to see?
(a) Heaven.
(b) The future.
(c) Time as cyclical.
(d) The nature of divinity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?

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

4. What did Confucius say comprised wisdom?

5. Of what is The Odyssey a parable according to Boorstin?

(see the answer key)

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