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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Boorstin says that Dickens' work was a love affair with what?
(a) The English people.
(b) English history.
(c) Future technologies.
(d) The New World.

3. When did opera develop in Europe?
(a) Around 1550 in France.
(b) Around 1800 in Germany.
(c) Around 1500 in England.
(d) Around 1600 in Italy.

4. To what does Melville say the sea and land are analogous in the epigraph to Part 12?
(a) The self.
(b) The soul.
(c) God.
(d) Civilization.

5. Who does Boorstin say Bach's audience was?
(a) The church and the public.
(b) The church.
(c) The aristocratic court.
(d) The military.

6. How was Gibbon perceived in Boorstin's account?
(a) As a leading adventure novelist.
(b) As a prophet of communism.
(c) As a pornographic philosopher.
(d) As the ultimate humanist historian.

7. What does Boorstin say Melville presents in Moby Dick?
(a) The isolation of American individuals.
(b) The stoicism of the American self.
(c) The cruel heart of American industry.
(d) The mystery of the self.

8. How did the orchestra change in the fifteenth century according to Boorstin?
(a) Conductors were introduced to coordinate parts.
(b) They swelled to unprecedented size.
(c) Composers began to employ new forms of harmony and dissonance.
(d) Instruments were grouped into families.

9. How does Boorstin characterize the form of Whitman's poetry?
(a) Symmetrical.
(b) Modernist.
(c) Unconventional.
(d) Post-modern.

10. What does Boorstin say Milton wrote after Comus and Lycidas?
(a) Drama.
(b) Criticism.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Prose.

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

12. What does Boorstin say Michelangelo inspired people to idealize?
(a) God.
(b) Man.
(c) Aristocrats.
(d) Genius.

13. How does Boorstin characterize Stravinsky's role in music?
(a) The prophet of harmony.
(b) The philosopher of sound.
(c) The apostle of modernism.
(d) The voice of the past.

14. In what tradition was Cristabel written according to Boorstin?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Classical symmetry.
(c) Gothic Romance.
(d) Baroque ornamentation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what way does Boorstin say Milton was a strong individual?

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

4. How does Boorstin say Proust created life?

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

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