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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 - Section IV-VI.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What term does Boorstin assert has been relegated to the experiences of young children or naïve adults?
(a) Celebrity.
(b) Hero.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Fairy tales.
2. What term refers to an activity that exists for the sole purpose of the media publicity and serves little to no other function in real life?
(a) Pseudo-event.
(b) Non-event.
(c) Attraction.
(d) Red carpet event.
3. What refers to a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position?
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Propaganda.
(d) Pseudo-event.
4. What name referred to Stalin's campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery?
(a) The Great Cleansing.
(b) The Grand Inquisition.
(c) The Great Famine.
(d) The Great Purge.
5. When did Charles Lindbergh make his famous flight across the Atlantic?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1915.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was Adolf Hitler born?
2. What is the fourth quality of the pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?
3. What was the departure site for Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean ?
4. Where did Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic end?
5. What is the third characteristic of the pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?
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