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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6, Sections 27-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Boorstin say Muslims see creativity?
(a) As innate to human beings.
(b) As usurping Allah's prerogative.
(c) As dangerous.
(d) As an echo of God's creation.

2. What part of Philo of Alexandria's philosophy does Boorstin say determined what man could know and what he could not?
(a) Nomos.
(b) Techne.
(c) Logos.
(d) Pneuma.

3. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?
(a) He is a creation of mankind but exists beyond human comprehension.
(b) He has always existed and still waits to come into existence.
(c) He speaks in texts but means all things.
(d) He exists but his qualities can not be known.

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

5. Of what is Dionysus the god according to Boorstin?
(a) Hunting and weaponry.
(b) Drama, dance and music.
(c) Warfare and strife.
(d) Craft and technology.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?

3. What does Boorstin say Christianity helped man discover?

4. Whose arguments allowed images of human figures to be created and displayed in Christianity?

5. What is Boorstin's subject in The Creators?

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