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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. What does Boorstin say the Renaissance offered to Shakespeare?
(a) New technology to react against and to use in his plays.
(b) New problems in human experience.
(c) Historically new material for his plays.
(d) A community of spectators.

2. When did men begin to make images of themselves?
(a) Middle Paleolithic period.
(b) Mesolithic period.
(c) Upper Paleolithic period.
(d) Early Paleolithic period.

3. Of what is Dionysus the god according to Boorstin?
(a) Warfare and strife.
(b) Craft and technology.
(c) Drama, dance and music.
(d) Hunting and weaponry.

4. What does Boorstin say Giotto di Bondone was the first Western artist to do?
(a) Bring Christian archetypes to life.
(b) Tell stories in paintings.
(c) Depict the human nude.
(d) Include text in his paintings.

5. What does Virginia Woolf say, in the second epigraph to Part 7, about writing?
(a) That writing is just the poor afterimage of a lived reality.
(b) That written accounts are only valuable in settling disputes between people.
(c) That writing is a weak man's refuge from the tyranny of events.
(d) That a thing has not happened until it has been described.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say man is finally learning to celebrate in Book 3?

2. How does Boorstin characterize Stravinsky's role in music?

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

4. What does Boorstin say is the difference between tragedy and comedy?

5. What does Boorstin say is unique about Richard Wagner?

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