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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a person or thing that draws, allures, or entices?
(a) Seductress.
(b) Fortress.
(c) Attraction.
(d) Cultivation.

2. Where was Karl Baedeker observed to drop a pea on every twentieth step of the staircase to the roof, so he could report the number of steps accurately?
(a) St. Patrick Cathedral.
(b) The Sistine Chapel.
(c) The Louvre.
(d) Milan Cathedral.

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

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

5. Boorstin writes that critical history and critical biography have reduced heroes to mere pawns of what?
(a) Chess.
(b) The media.
(c) Social forces.
(d) The public.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?

2. Boorstin posits that in addition to destroying old heroes ____ has made it difficult to create and recognize new heroes.

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

4. What does Boorstin assert has been provided in exotic locations, in Chapter 3 - Section IV?

5. What word means to represent concretely, to externalize?

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