The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 - Section IV-VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Ford Model T introduced?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1895.

2. Boorstin writes that the telling of news has changed from reporting what was seen to what?
(a) Reacting to what is seen.
(b) Participating in what is seen.
(c) Actively creating what is seen.
(d) Commenting on what is seen.

3. Where did Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic end?
(a) Le Bourget Field, Paris.
(b) McMorris Field, UK.
(c) Paris International Airport.
(d) London International Airport.

4. What is the second of the "extravagant expectations" held by Americans, according to Boorstin?
(a) Time is of the essence.
(b) We have unlimited power to fashion the world to our desires.
(c) There is always more that the world can provide.
(d) Money can buy anything.

5. How many main "extravagant expectations" does Boorstin posit Americans hold?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were aboard Thomas Cook's first train tour to Scotland?

2. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 2 - Section 1, that heroes can now be what?

3. In Chapter 1 - Section II, Boorstin discusses the temptation of newsmen to make images that were what?

4. Boorstin writes that the image must exist in a kind of liminal state "between expectation and" what?

5. In what year did Thomas Cook's train tours first go to Scotland?

(see the answer key)

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