View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7, Sections 31-35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was depicted in the first images?
(a) Animals.
(b) Men.
(c) Abstract symbols.
(d) The landscape.

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

3. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?
(a) To use for writing.
(b) Wicked people.
(c) People who don't inquire into the world.
(d) People who ask too many questions.

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

5. What does Thoreau say, in the epigraph to Part 7, it takes to speak the truth?
(a) An understanding of what the consequences will be, for the people who don't want to hear it.
(b) A commitment to make people see it.
(c) Eyes to perceive it.
(d) One to speak and one to listen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?

2. Into what did Boethius want to inject Greek wisdom?

3. What does Virginia Woolf say, in the second epigraph to Part 7, about writing?

4. In what does Boorstin say Pantagruel luxuriates?

5. What was the purpose of Don Quixote in Boorstin's account?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 277 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample