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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 is the third characteristic of the pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?
(a) Its purpose is to be recreated or reported.
(b) It is intentionally created.
(c) It is intended as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(d) It is ambiguous.

2. What term is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy?
(a) Hyper-reality.
(b) Superreality.
(c) Nonreality.
(d) Pseudo-event.

3. Pseudo-events tend to do what to the human experience, according to Boorstin?
(a) Objectify it.
(b) Diminish it.
(c) Narrow it.
(d) Embellish it.

4. Established by Boorstin, what is the second way pseudo-events can overshadow real or spontaneous events?
(a) They can be repeated.
(b) They are more dramatic.
(c) They are less dramatic.
(d) They are easier to distribute.

5. Boorstin states that psychological analysis has effectively turned the actions of heroes into compensations for what?
(a) Internal neurosis.
(b) Internal psychopathology.
(c) Internal insignificance.
(d) Internal psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boorstin writes that the telling of news has changed from reporting what was seen to what?

2. When was Adolf Hitler born?

3. What people does Boorstin assert were able to express, ritualize, and create heroes, in Chapter 2 - Section II?

4. With whom did Charles Lindbergh sign a contract for his story of the famous monoplane flight?

5. What book of Walter Lippman's does Boorstin cite, in Chapter 1 - Section V?

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