The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America Quiz Questions | Quiz: Chapter 5 - Section I-III

Quiz: Chapter 5 - Section I-III

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. Boorstin begins Chapter 5 - Section II discussing the differences between "ideal-thinking" and what?
a) Commercial thinking.
b) Concept thinking.
c) Image thinking.
d) Logic thinking.

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

3. When did P.T. Barnum purchase Scudder's American Museum?
a) 1905.
b) 1859.
c) 1867.
d) 1841.

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

5. Boorstin writes that the image must exist in a kind of liminal state "between...
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