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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. With whom did Charles Lindbergh sign a contract for his story of the famous monoplane flight?
(a) Chicago Tribune.
(b) New York Times.
(c) CBS.
(d) USA Today.

2. Boorstin writes that critical history and critical biography have reduced heroes to mere pawns of what?
(a) Chess.
(b) The media.
(c) The public.
(d) Social forces.

3. What political party did Benito Mussolini lead?
(a) National Fascist Party.
(b) The Nazi Party.
(c) The Italian Nationalist Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

4. What term refers to an activity that exists for the sole purpose of the media publicity and serves little to no other function in real life?
(a) Non-event.
(b) Red carpet event.
(c) Attraction.
(d) Pseudo-event.

5. How many people did Thomas Cook claim to have arranged to attend the Great Exhibition?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 150,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second quality of the pseudo-event described by Boorstin?

2. What term refers to that which is of foreign origin or character, not native, introduced from abroad, but not fully naturalized or acclimatized?

3. What was the name of the plane that Charles Lindbergh made his flight across the Atlantic in?

4. What does Boorstin refer to pseudo-events as, in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

5. In Chapter 1 - Section IV, Boorstin uses an example from the 1950s in which a story was released about an imminent attack by whom?

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