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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. Established by Boorstin, what is the second way pseudo-events can overshadow real or spontaneous events?
(a) They are more dramatic.
(b) They can be repeated.
(c) They are less dramatic.
(d) They are easier to distribute.

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

3. Who wrote Crystallizing Public Opinion?
(a) Edward L. Bernays.
(b) Edward R. Burns.
(c) Edward L. Bynay.
(d) Edward A. Smith.

4. What is the second of the "extravagant expectations" held by Americans, according to Boorstin?
(a) We have unlimited power to fashion the world to our desires.
(b) Time is of the essence.
(c) Money can buy anything.
(d) There is always more that the world can provide.

5. Who wrote Mein Kampf?
(a) Benito Mussolini.
(b) Friedrich Engels.
(c) Adolph Hitler.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What refers to a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative or meta-narrative?

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

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