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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What term refers to the process of making something commercial?
(a) Propone.
(b) Advertise.
(c) Commoditize.
(d) Catalyze.
2. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 1 - Section V, that the advances made in American society have served to "blur the edges of" what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Commerce.
(c) Reality.
(d) Commercialism.
3. What were Thomas Cook's circular notes better known as?
(a) Credit slips.
(b) Travel coupons.
(c) Credit cards.
(d) Traveler's Cheques.
4. When did Joseph Stalin assume the role of head of state of Russia?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1929.
5. What is the first aspect of a pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is intentionally created.
(b) It is intended as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(c) It is ambiguous.
(d) Its purpose is to be recreated or reported.
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. When was the hotel coupon introduced to the touring industry in London?
3. In his argument in Chapter 2 - Section IV, what does Boorstin suggest create themselves?
4. When was Adolf Hitler born?
5. Who wrote Crystallizing Public Opinion?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Baedeker expand his publications? What was the "star system"?
2. How does Boorstin distinguish pseudo-events from propaganda?
3. What does Boorstin write of the American concept of "greatness," in Chapter 2 - Section I?
4. How was the second story a pseudo-event in Boorstin's example of "the leak" in Chapter 1 - Section IV?
5. What argument is made regarding the objects on display in museums in Chapter 3 - Section IV?
6. How does Boorstin describe the power of celebrity to obscure and destroy the heroic?
7. How did Charles Lindbergh succumb to celebrity, according to Boorstin?
8. Who was Charles Lindbergh? What does Boorstin assert of him?
9. How did Conrad Hilton establish his hotel empire? Where was his first hotel built?
10. What comparison does Boorstin make between celebrities and heroes in Chapter 2 - Section IV?
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