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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 does Boorstin write essentially means that people have accepted and bought into the image that we are trying to uphold?
(a) Standards.
(b) Prestige.
(c) Ideals.
(d) Archetypes.

2. What refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s?
(a) Dime store fiction.
(b) Pulp fiction.
(c) Romance fiction.
(d) Dirt fiction.

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

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

5. What does Boorstin assert arose spontaneously through "tradition, history, or by God,"are not made simple, are direct and active in the sense that they pull people forward?
(a) Ideals.
(b) Images.
(c) Nonevents.
(d) Pseudo-events.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to purpose or attitude toward the effect of one's actions or conduct?

2. Boorstin claims that in the effort to make art and literature accessible to all, these forms of expression were what?

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

4. When was Publishers' Weekly first published?

5. What company advertised the fact that the bottles were "steam-sterilized," neglecting to mention the fact that all the other beer companies used the same process?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Boorstin's subject in Chapter 6 - Section IV? How is the effect discussed defined?

2. What does Boorstin assert are the greatest challenges for America and our relationship to the rest of the world?

3. What is the fourth aspect of the image, according to Boorstin in Chapter 5 - Section I?

4. What is the second aspect of "successful advertising" described by Boorstin? How is it defined?

5. What does Boorstin assert is the impact of art reproductions?

6. What was the impact of Muzak, according to Boorstin?

7. What is the first aspect of "successful advertising" described by Boorstin? What example does he provide?

8. Why does Boorstin believe the American image is viewed negatively by other nations?

9. What does Boorstin write of the evolution of linguistics and the pseudo-event in Chapter 6 - Section III?

10. What does Boorstin suggest was the impact of Reader's Digest on the populace? What is Reader's Digest?

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