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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 - Section I-IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did popular publications print articles showing the car was cheaper to operate than the horse?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1825.

2. What term does Boorstin assert has been relegated to the experiences of young children or naïve adults?
(a) Celebrity.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Hero.
(d) Fairy tales.

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

4. When did Mussolini become the Prime Minister of Italy?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1922.

5. When was Al Capone indicted for income tax evasion and various violations of the Volstead Act?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1931.

Short Answer Questions

1. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in what year?

2. Pseudo-events, according to Boorstin, create distortion through what?

3. What, according to the author, is always in the present and requires a constant stream of publicity and pseudo-events to maintain its status?

4. What does Boorstin refer to pseudo-events as, in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

5. Boorstin asserts, in Chapter 2 - Section I, that Americans have fooled themselves about how much _____ is contained in the world and in individuals.

(see the answer key)

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