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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. How does Boorstin characterize Of Education?
(a) A manifesto of humanism.
(b) A farce about religious education.
(c) A morality tale about experience and wisdom.
(d) A satire on learning.

2. For what does Boorstin say skyscrapers were first used?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Industry.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Defense.

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

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

5. What did Gibbon add to the genre of human comedy according to Boorstin?
(a) The biography of kings.
(b) The historical novel.
(c) The saga of empire.
(d) The fairy tale of history.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Zola say man stopped believing in the epigraph to Book 3?

2. What history did Prescott and Parkman write?

3. With what does Boorstin say Alfred Stieglitz experimented?

4. What does Boorstin say Leonardo da Vinci protected?

5. What does Boorstin say T.S. Eliot believed poetry was about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Boorstin say is Ben Franklin's contribution to the art of imaginative life?

2. What does Boorstin say is William Wordsworth's contribution to imaginative culture?

3. How did photography change the nature of art and representation in Boorstin's account?

4. Why does Boorstin say Goethe's Faust is an important work?

5. How did painting begin to reflect the changes that were taking place in literature?

6. What does Boorstin say is Rousseau's contribution to the art of autobiography?

7. Where does Boorstin put Kafka in his portrait of imaginative thinkers?

8. In what way did T. S. Eliot change the course of literature's evolution?

9. How does Boorstin characterize Michelangelo's contribution to human culture?

10. What innovation does Boorstin say Leonardo da Vinci made in imaginative art?

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