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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. What was one of Charles Lindbergh's nicknames?
(a) The Flyer.
(b) Wings.
(c) Lucky Lindy.
(d) Lucky Chuck.

2. What name referred to Stalin's campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery?
(a) The Grand Inquisition.
(b) The Great Purge.
(c) The Great Cleansing.
(d) The Great Famine.

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

4. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 1 - Section V, that the advances made in American society have served to "blur the edges of" what?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Reality.
(c) Commercialism.
(d) Truth.

5. Who did Charles Lindbergh marry?
(a) Elizabeth Winchester.
(b) Sarah Morrow.
(c) Mary Anne Doherty.
(d) Anne Morrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin refer to pseudo-events as, in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

2. In Chapter 1 - Section II, Boorstin discusses the temptation of newsmen to make images that were what?

3. What was the name of the plane that Charles Lindbergh made his flight across the Atlantic in?

4. What is the second of the "extravagant expectations" held by Americans, according to Boorstin?

5. What does Boorstin call "a person who is known for his well-knownness"?

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