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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. For what was God cutting rods, in the quote from Martin Luther that opens Part 2?
(a) People who ask too many questions.
(b) Wicked people.
(c) To use for writing.
(d) People who don't inquire into the world.

2. From what two ways of looking at things did Pablo Picasso free western culture in Boorstin's account?
(a) Seeing tradition and seeing the self in its future shape.
(b) Looking from a single point and looking at beauty.
(c) Looking at the self as raw material and looking for self-opposition.
(d) Looking for the immortal in things, and looking for an essential self.

3. What was the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge?
(a) Teacher and student.
(b) Competitors.
(c) Enemies.
(d) Collaborators.

4. What was Virginia Woolf's medium for self-exploration?
(a) Short story.
(b) Painting.
(c) Poem.
(d) Novel.

5. Where was the skyscraper born?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should be the outcome of art according to the Byron epigraph?

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

3. What was startling about Leaves of Grass in Boorstin's account?

4. What was novel about the essay according to Boorstin?

5. When did Goethe finish Faust?

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