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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 12, Sections 68-70 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Benjamin Franklin innovate in the autobiographical form?
(a) His Autobiography introduced the success narrative.
(b) His Autobiography described his most intimate thoughts and actions.
(c) His Autobiography was focused solely on himself and his family.
(d) His Autobiography gave an account of his soul and sins, in addition to his relationship with God.

2. When did Montaigne publish his Essays?
(a) 1580.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1620.
(d) 1607.

3. What is the source of the epigraph that opens The Creators?
(a) Jain Sacred text.
(b) The Odyssey.
(c) The Rig Veda.
(d) The Old Testament.

4. Of what does Stonehenge consist?
(a) A stone temple and courtyard.
(b) An elongated cross.
(c) Two circles of stones.
(d) Numerous figures carved in chalk on hillsides.

5. Out of what did Milton create poetry in Boorstin's account?
(a) Man's adventures in choice.
(b) Man's struggles with good and evil.
(c) Man's difficulties with right and wrong.
(d) Man's diabolical nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Pablo Picasso captured in his paintings?

2. What are hieroglyphs?

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

4. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?

5. What does Boorstin say upturned stones signify?

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