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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 - Section IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Established by Boorstin, what is the third way pseudo-events can overshadow real or spontaneous events?
(a) They are more dramatic.
(b) They are easier to distribute.
(c) They are less dramatic.
(d) They can be repeated.

2. What states that the more we create images to "expand experience" the more we inevitably narrow experience?
(a) The pseudo-effect.
(b) The mirror effect.
(c) The smoke effect.
(d) The pseufo-event.

3. In his argument in Chapter 2 - Section IV, what does Boorstin suggest create themselves?
(a) Pseudo-events.
(b) Celebrities.
(c) Heroes.
(d) Politicians.

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

5. Boorstin writes in Chapter 6 - Section III, "We fill our lives not with experience but with the ____ of experience."
(a) Images.
(b) Stereotypes.
(c) Ideals.
(d) Archetypes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boorstin writes that we are left with the "invention of experience" rather than its what?

2. Who wrote Crystallizing Public Opinion?

3. Who did Charles Lindbergh marry?

4. What book of Walter Lippman's does Boorstin cite, in Chapter 1 - Section V?

5. Boorstin writes that the telling of news has changed from reporting what was seen to what?

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