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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. Where does Boorstin say Monet's achievement was made?
(a) In the elusive moment.
(b) In the relationship between the artist and history.
(c) In the eternal moment of art.
(d) In the relationship between audience and nature.

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

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

4. On what did Melville reflect in Moby Dick according to Boorstin?
(a) The paradox of good and evil.
(b) American industrial expansion.
(c) The problem of indigenous culture in the New World.
(d) American exceptionalism.

5. What does Boorstin say Giotto di Bondone was the first Western artist to do?
(a) Tell stories in paintings.
(b) Bring Christian archetypes to life.
(c) Depict the human nude.
(d) Include text in his paintings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Advances in what field made it possible for calligraphy to be an art in Chinese culture according to Boorstin?

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

3. What artistic movement does Boorstin say Monet initiated?

4. Of what is the Florence Foundling Hospital the first according to Boorstin?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Boorstin describe the evolution of the orchestra over time?

2. How did dance change during the transition into modernity?

3. How does Proust change the way we understand imagination in modern times?

4. How did Beethoven change the nature of music according to Boorstin?

5. How does Boorstin characterize Dickens' contribution to imaginative culture?

6. What does Boorstin say Pickering and Prescott have in common, and what is their role in the development of the Western imaginative consciousness?

7. How does Boorstin characterize Johann Sebastian Bach's contribution to human imaginative work?

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

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

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

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