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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was unique about the first literary work in Boorstin's account?
(a) It was in dactylic hexameter.
(b) It was in prose.
(c) It described the origins of the world.
(d) It was about the ancient past.

2. What does Boorstin say is the paradoxical nature of Moses' God?
(a) He exists but his qualities can not be known.
(b) He has always existed and still waits to come into existence.
(c) He is a creation of mankind but exists beyond human comprehension.
(d) He speaks in texts but means all things.

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

4. 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.

5. How did the ideal human figure shift from Egypt to Greece?
(a) It became more formal.
(b) It became monstrous.
(c) It became more ideal.
(d) It became more natural.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are hieroglyphs?

2. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?

3. What did St. Augustine give men in City of God?

4. How does Boorstin characterize the Decameron?

5. What metaphor does Boorstin say permeates Christian literature?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Greek depictions compare with Egyptian symbols?

2. What does Boorstin mean when he says that theology was born in Greek philosophy?

3. What innovation do the Homeric epics represent in the culture of the imagination?

4. What explanation does Boorstin offer for the cave paintings of Altamira, Lascaux and Les Trois Freres?

5. How does Boorstin characterize the Confucian teachings?

6. What contribution does Boorstin say Boethius made to imaginative culture?

7. What was St. Augustine's contribution to imaginative culture according to Boorstin?

8. What contribution did the Egyptians make in building the pyramids?

9. What did Moses add to the culture of imagination?

10. What is a dithyramb and what is its place in imaginative culture?

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