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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 long was it before Gothic art changed the style of European art and architecture in Boorstin's account?
(a) A hundred years.
(b) Five hundred years.
(c) A thousand years.
(d) Two thousand years.

2. What does each Tale in the Canterbury Tales have according to Boorstin?
(a) A moral.
(b) A devil figure.
(c) A villain.
(d) A pregnant woman.

3. To what use did Romans put sculpture according to Boorstin?
(a) Holding up buildings.
(b) Marking territories.
(c) Memorializing the dead.
(d) Teaching anatomy.

4. Why is Dante described as the founder of modern literature in Boorstin's opinion?
(a) Because the Divine Comedy externalized a dialogue that would normally have remained internal.
(b) Because the Divine Comedy represents a new cosmogony.
(c) Because the Divine Comedy is autobiographical.
(d) Because the Divine Comedy was the first printed book after the Bible.

5. What does The Consolation of Philosophy explain?
(a) How to see God's will in events.
(b) How to reinvent yourself as a religious person.
(c) How to distinguish God's way of knowing from Man's.
(d) How to live in a world without God.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Confucius say comprised wisdom?

3. Where does Goethe say the shadows are deepest in the epigraph to Part 10?

4. What else did Thespis invent?

5. How does Boorstin characterize the autobiography as a form?

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