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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Into what did Boethius want to inject Greek wisdom?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Technology.
(c) Politics.
(d) Warfare.

3. What does Byron say a sculptor should do in the epigraph to Part 4?
(a) Capture his model.
(b) Perfect his model.
(c) Exceed his model.
(d) Leave some flaw by which the work could be distinguished from the model.

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

5. What was the first literary work according to Boorstin?
(a) Herodotus' history.
(b) Thucydides' history.
(c) Petronius' Satyricon.
(d) Thales of Miletus' history.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was it before Gothic art changed the style of European art and architecture in Boorstin's account?

2. When did men begin to make images of themselves?

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

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

5. What becomes harder to understand in a culture that believes in one god in Boorstin's account?

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