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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. Pseudo-events, according to Boorstin, create distortion through what?
(a) Complication.
(b) Ambiguity.
(c) Propaganda.
(d) Falsehood.

2. Boorstin posits that in addition to destroying old heroes ____ has made it difficult to create and recognize new heroes.
(a) Technology.
(b) The printing press.
(c) News media.
(d) Democracy.

3. According to Walter Lippman, a ____ is a way of giving rapid meaning to an external person or situation to help one orient to a world full of confusing and overwhelming experiences.
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Pseudo-event.
(c) Propaganda.
(d) Archetype.

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

5. Boorstin asserts, in Chapter 2 - Section I, that Americans have fooled themselves about how much _____ is contained in the world and in individuals.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Fame.
(d) Greatness.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Charles Lindbergh make his famous flight across the Atlantic?

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

3. What is the fourth quality of the pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?

4. Where was Al Capone born?

5. What first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police was best known for his involvement in the Lindbergh kidnapping case?

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