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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. When does Boorstin say Stonehenge was created?
(a) 5,000 B.C.
(b) 500 A.D.
(c) 2,000 B.C.
(d) 10,000 B.C.

2. To what use did Romans put sculpture according to Boorstin?
(a) Marking territories.
(b) Memorializing the dead.
(c) Holding up buildings.
(d) Teaching anatomy.

3. In what does Boorstin say Rabelais' book was an act of faith?
(a) Culture.
(b) Literary history.
(c) God.
(d) Language.

4. How did the Greeks see architecture according to Boorstin?
(a) As temples for the gods.
(b) As the heart of the people.
(c) As the center of the economy.
(d) As houses for the soul.

5. 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 is a creation of mankind but exists beyond human comprehension.
(c) He speaks in texts but means all things.
(d) He exists but his qualities can not be known.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Boorstin characterize the nature of Gothic art?

2. What does Auden say about books in the second epigraph to Part 5?

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

4. What does Horace say about the escaped word in the epigraph for Part 5?

5. What is a dithyramb?

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