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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what condition does art aspire according to Pater's epigraph for Part 9?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Music.
(c) Religion.
(d) Science.

2. What does Boorstin say artists began to see in modern art?
(a) Traditions.
(b) Platonic forms.
(c) Evanescent moments.
(d) Transcendent forms.

3. How does Boorstin characterize the Heroic American Literary Myth?
(a) A tale of morality and sacrifice.
(b) A tale of brutality and crude mysticism.
(c) A tale of revenge and madness.
(d) A tale of shining visions fulfilled.

4. What does Boorstin say man is finally learning to celebrate in Book 3?
(a) The human masses.
(b) Each individual.
(c) The Other.
(d) Industry.

5. What did Bondone create according to Boorstin?
(a) Human figures who transcended religion.
(b) A new form of Christian allegory.
(c) Individuality in visual arts.
(d) A personal vision of Christian archetypes.

6. With what does Boorstin say Alfred Stieglitz experimented?
(a) Architectural forms.
(b) Musical forms.
(c) Capturing moving images.
(d) Exposures and negatives.

7. What does Boorstin say T.S. Eliot believed poetry was about?
(a) The extinction of the poetic self.
(b) The poet's self-fulfillment.
(c) The fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
(d) The evolution of society.

8. How many paintings does Boorstin say da Vinci left?
(a) 17.
(b) 39.
(c) 51.
(d) 108.

9. How does Boorstin characterize Wordsworth's best work?
(a) Drama.
(b) Epic poetry.
(c) Remembrance.
(d) Prophecy.

10. How does Boorstin characterize the autobiography as a form?
(a) An objective account of a person's feelings and language.
(b) A rebellion against the act of being misread.
(c) A scientific glimpse into the workings of the self.
(d) A shifting subject viewed from a shifting perspective.

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

12. What does Boorstin say Dostoevsky's novels do to Western values?
(a) Besiege them.
(b) Embrace them.
(c) Reject them.
(d) Annihilate them.

13. How does Koestler characterize creativity in the epigraph to Book 3?
(a) As a new language.
(b) As a new discipline.
(c) As a new form of learning.
(d) As a new form of philosophy.

14. How does Boorstin characterize "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
(a) The first post-modern poem.
(b) The last Medieval chanson.
(c) The first confessional poem.
(d) The first modernist poem.

15. What motif did Bruneleschi and Alberti introduce to Western art?
(a) Decorative cherubs.
(b) The view out of a window.
(c) Mimetic realism.
(d) The division of a canvas into allegorical and realist halves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say was Milton's contribution to poetry?

2. What history did Prescott and Parkman write?

3. In what does Zola say man DID NOT stop believing in the epigraph to Book 3?

4. What does Boorstin say Rousseau's Confessions are a self-defense against?

5. How did Dostoevsky view Western science according to Boorstin?

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