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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Boorstin writes in Chapter 5 that "God himself becomes not a power but" what?
(a) An image.
(b) An advertisement.
(c) A nonentity.
(d) A myth.

2. What Muzak designer suggested that his company was more the business of programming than the business of music?
(a) James Morrison.
(b) Donald O'Neill.
(c) Adolf Zukor.
(d) Carl Laemmle.

3. In Chapter 5 - Section IV, Boorstin describes how the appearance of advertising has caused a movement from focusing on truth to focusing on what?
(a) Need.
(b) Commerce.
(c) Desire.
(d) Credibility.

4. The argument is made, in Chapter 3 - Section IV, that the objects in museums were ____ from the homes of the wealthy and famous to be available for all to view.
(a) Smuggled.
(b) Stolen.
(c) Liberated.
(d) Hijacked.

5. 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) The Louvre.
(b) The Sistine Chapel.
(c) St. Patrick Cathedral.
(d) Milan Cathedral.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin refer to propaganda as, in Chapter 1- Section IV?

2. Boorstin asserts that the influx of pseudo-events has caused the confusion of participant and what roles?

3. What was the distance of Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic?

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

5. What were Thomas Cook's circular notes better known as?

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