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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 - Section IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position?
(a) Newspaper.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Propaganda.
(d) Pseudo-event.

2. Boorstin asserts that the influx of pseudo-events has caused the confusion of participant and what roles?
(a) Creator.
(b) Viewer.
(c) Catalyst.
(d) Instigator.

3. According to Walter Lippman, a ____ is a way of giving rapid meaning to an external person or situation to help one orient to a world full of confusing and overwhelming experiences.
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Archetype.
(c) Stereotype.
(d) Pseudo-event.

4. What does Boorstin claim increased the ease of creation and transmission of several different types of media?
(a) Media Revolution.
(b) World Wide Web.
(c) The printing press.
(d) Graphic Revolution.

5. Boorstin writes that the telling of news has changed from reporting what was seen to what?
(a) Actively creating what is seen.
(b) Reacting to what is seen.
(c) Participating in what is seen.
(d) Commenting on what is seen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1 - Section II, Boorstin discusses the temptation of newsmen to make images that were what?

2. What word refers to that which is coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency, without effort or premeditation, natural and unconstrained?

3. In Chapter 1 - Section IV, Boorstin suggests that leaks are a form of what by governments?

4. What is the third characteristic of the pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?

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

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