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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II Section I-III.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Boorstin writes that the telling of news has changed from reporting what was seen to what?
(a) Commenting on what is seen.
(b) Actively creating what is seen.
(c) Reacting to what is seen.
(d) Participating in what is seen.

3. In Chapter 1 - Section IV, Boorstin suggests that leaks are a form of what by governments?
(a) Amnesty.
(b) Arbitration.
(c) Testing.
(d) Peace negotiations.

4. What does Boorstin claim increased the ease of creation and transmission of several different types of media?
(a) Media Revolution.
(b) Graphic Revolution.
(c) World Wide Web.
(d) The printing press.

5. What is the first of the "extravagant expectations" held by Americans, according to Boorstin?
(a) Money can buy anything.
(b) We have unlimited power to fashion the world to our desires
(c) Time is of the essence.
(d) There is always more that the world can provide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third characteristic of the pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?

2. What word means to represent concretely, to externalize?

3. In Chapter 1 - Section V, Boorstin discusses a change in the way people relate to truth and to what?

4. What word refers to that which is coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency, without effort or premeditation, natural and unconstrained?

5. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in what year?

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