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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 - Section IV-VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 2 - Section 1, that heroes can now be what?
(a) Copied.
(b) Emulated.
(c) Mass-produced.
(d) Destroyed.

2. What is the fourth quality of the pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is intentionally created.
(b) It is ambiguous.
(c) Its purpose is to be recreated or reported.
(d) It is intended as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

3. In Chapter 1 - Section V, Boorstin discusses a change in the way people relate to truth and to what?
(a) Media.
(b) Ambiguity.
(c) Religion.
(d) Image.

4. Boorstin posits that in addition to destroying old heroes ____ has made it difficult to create and recognize new heroes.
(a) Technology.
(b) News media.
(c) The printing press.
(d) Democracy.

5. What, according to the author, is always in the present and requires a constant stream of publicity and pseudo-events to maintain its status?
(a) Celebrity.
(b) Political favor.
(c) Heroism.
(d) Public favor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1 - Section IV, Boorstin suggests that leaks are a form of what by governments?

2. What term does Boorstin assert has been relegated to the experiences of young children or naïve adults?

3. What term is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy?

4. Boorstin asserts that the influx of pseudo-events has caused the confusion of participant and what roles?

5. What is the first aspect of a pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?

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