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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 11, Sections 57-60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what does Boorstin say Pantagruel luxuriates?
(a) Devotion.
(b) Divine sensualism.
(c) Vulgarity.
(d) Sadism.

2. For what does Boorstin say the Pyramids were built in Egypt?
(a) Proclaiming the Egyptians' power as a people.
(b) Housing the dead pharaohs.
(c) Challenging the gods.
(d) Measuring the progress of the heavens.

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

4. What did Gibbon add to the genre of human comedy according to Boorstin?
(a) The fairy tale of history.
(b) The biography of kings.
(c) The historical novel.
(d) The saga of empire.

5. How does Boorstin characterize Suger's creation at the St. Denis cathedral?
(a) Ascetic.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Melodramatic.
(d) Obscure.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Boorstin say the Renaissance offered to Shakespeare?

3. What does Boorstin say Milton wrote after Comus and Lycidas?

4. What does the third-eye represent in Hindu art?

5. What does Thoreau say, in the epigraph to Part 7, it takes to speak the truth?

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