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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. In Chapter 6 - Section I, Boorstin suggests that America return to its ____ and cease communicating with the rest of the world in image.
(a) Ideals.
(b) Standards.
(c) Archetype.
(d) Prestige.

2. What refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theater District, New York?
(a) Main Stage.
(b) Broadway.
(c) SoHo.
(d) West End.

3. What type of book binding begins with the signatures of the book as loose pages which are then clamped together?
(a) Cross stitch.
(b) Undersew.
(c) Bind-sew.
(d) Oversew.

4. What major movie studio did Adolf Zukor originate?
(a) Paramount Pictures.
(b) General Film Company.
(c) Universal Studios.
(d) MGM.

5. What editor and co-editor of Publishers' Weekly guided the publication through much of the 20th century?
(a) Henry J. Williamson.
(b) Neil Jackson Smith.
(c) Jefferson Andrews.
(d) Frederic Gershom Melcher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment?

2. What refers to the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something?

3. Daniel J. Boorstin was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until when?

4. When was Daniel J. Boorstin born?

5. Boorstin concludes that the United States in now locked in a pattern of "____" in which "we have fallen in love with our own image."

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes to the printing industry does Boorstin describe in Chapter 4 - Section I?

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

3. What are the first two aspects of images discussed by Boorstin in Chapter 5 - Section I?

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

5. What shift in the American psyche does Boorstin describe in Chapter 6 - Section I?

6. How does Boorstin define "ideal-thinking" and "image-thinking"?

7. How does Boorstin view the impact of advertising on the American psyche?

8. What does Boorstin believe is responsible for the mass production of art? What effect does this cause?

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

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

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