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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 9, Sections 47-53.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Paleolithic man discovered in making images?
(a) Power.
(b) Religion.
(c) Truth.
(d) Himself.

2. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?
(a) An end to their sufferings.
(b) Cycles to develop through.
(c) An explanation of where evil came from.
(d) A direction toward God.

3. To what condition does art aspire according to Pater's epigraph for Part 9?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Religion.
(c) Music.
(d) Science.

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

5. What does the third-eye represent in Hindu art?
(a) The ability of special men to see beyond physical sight.
(b) Man's self-awareness.
(c) Ancestors watching over people.
(d) The vision men share with the gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gibbon say was the essence of history?

2. Why does Confucius say that it is impossible for men to serve the spirits?

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

4. When did Bruneleschi make the Foundling Hospital in Florence?

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

(see the answer key)

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