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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. What does Boorstin assert arose spontaneously through "tradition, history, or by God,"are not made simple, are direct and active in the sense that they pull people forward?
(a) Pseudo-events.
(b) Images.
(c) Ideals.
(d) Nonevents.

2. What word refers to that which is coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency, without effort or premeditation, natural and unconstrained?
(a) Instantaneous.
(b) Combustive.
(c) Spontaneous.
(d) Structured.

3. When was Charles Lindbergh born?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1900.

4. What refers to a single complete page, front and back, in a finished book?
(a) Leaf.
(b) Press page.
(c) Double.
(d) Single.

5. What is the fifth characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is ambiguous.
(b) It is believable.
(c) It is synthetic.
(d) It is simplified.

Short Answer Questions

1. What title did Mussolini go by after 3 years in office as Prime Minister?

2. In what year did urban tourism in America become a profitable industry, as the number of tour agencies, railroad passenger departments, guidebook publishers, and travel writers grew at a fast pace?

3. Boorstin suggests that the graphic revolution and what else are mostly responsible for the abridgment and the mass production of art?

4. Boorstin states, in Chapter 3 - Section I, that in today's travel there is very little what?

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

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