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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 is the fourth characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is synthetic.
(b) It is ambiguous.
(c) It is believable.
(d) It is vivid.

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

3. What is the second quality of the pseudo-event described by Boorstin?
(a) It is ambiguous.
(b) Its purpose is to be recreated or reported.
(c) It is intentionally created.
(d) It is intended as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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

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

Short Answer 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?

2. Where did Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic end?

3. Boorstin writes that advertising helps to make a shift from what is true to what is what?

4. What term is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy?

5. What was the familiar hallmark of Baedeker guides?

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