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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. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 2 - Section 1, that heroes can now be what?
(a) Mass-produced.
(b) Emulated.
(c) Destroyed.
(d) Copied.

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

3. When was Mein Kampf published?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1900.

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

5. Where was Al Capone born?
(a) Booklyn, NY.
(b) Naperville, IL.
(c) Chicago, IL.
(d) Queens, NY.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Crystallizing Public Opinion?

2. What refers to a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative or meta-narrative?

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

4. What term refers to widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character of renown and public eminence?

5. In Chapter 1 - Section V, Boorstin discusses a change in the way people relate to truth and to what?

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