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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge?

2. What does Boorstin say artists began to see in modern art?

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

4. When did Goethe finish Faust?

5. For what is Faust a metaphor according to Boorstin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Boorstin characterize Monet's accomplishment?

2. What is the skyscraper's role in the development of the human imagination?

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

4. Where does Melville's Moby Dick fit in Boorstin's narrative?

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

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

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

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

9. How does Boorstin characterize Milton's contribution to imaginative culture?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do women play so small a part in The Creators? Analyze the text to describe Boorstin's ideas about women and women's contribution to Western culture and the development of the imagination. Are they principally muses instead of creators? Are they principally biological creators instead of artistic creators? How does Boorstin describe women's roles in culture?

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 3

How do the differences between men and women figure in Boorstin's book? What kind of creativity, and what forms are appropriate to each? What are the essential differences according to Boorstin? What underlying symmetries or similarities are there?

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