1. With whom did Charles Lindbergh sign a contract for his story of the famous monoplane flight?
(a) USA Today.
(b) New York Times.
(c) Chicago Tribune.
(d) CBS.

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

3. Boorstin writes that the image must exist in a kind of liminal state "between expectation and" what?
(a) Morality.
(b) Reality.
(c) Truth.
(d) Logic.

4. The third aspect of successful advertising discussed by Boorstin in Chapter 5 - Section IV is what?
(a) Ambiguity.
(b) Appeal of the half-intelligible.
(c) Appeal of the contrived.
(d) Appeal of the self-fulfilling prophecy.

5. How many people did Thomas Cook claim to have arranged to attend the Great Exhibition?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 150,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Karl Baedeker start his publishing company?

3. What is the third characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?

4. When did Mussolini become the Prime Minister of Italy?

5. Boorstin suggests that the graphic revolution and what else are mostly responsible for the abridgment and the mass production of art?

(see the answer key)

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