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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is simplified.
(b) It is ambiguous.
(c) It is believable.
(d) It is synthetic.

2. What does Boorstin describe as a kind of pseudo-event, especially in the sense that they were "more vivid and more impressive than the spontaneous original"?
(a) News media.
(b) Books.
(c) Movies.
(d) Photographs.

3. 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) Commercialism.
(c) Reality.
(d) Truth.

4. When did Karl Baedeker die?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1847.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1859.

5. Where was Al Capone born?
(a) Naperville, IL.
(b) Queens, NY.
(c) Booklyn, NY.
(d) Chicago, IL.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fourth quality of the pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?

2. Who wrote Mein Kampf?

3. Established by Boorstin, what is the second way pseudo-events can overshadow real or spontaneous events?

4. What was one of Charles Lindbergh's nicknames?

5. What term refers to widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character of renown and public eminence?

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