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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II Section I-III.

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. 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) Spontaneous.
(c) Structured.
(d) Combustive.

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

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

5. Pseudo-events, according to Boorstin, create distortion through what?
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Falsehood.
(c) Complication.
(d) Ambiguity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Established by Boorstin, what is the first way pseudo-events can overshadow real or spontaneous events?

2. Pseudo-events tend to do what to the human experience, according to Boorstin?

3. Established by Boorstin, what is the third way pseudo-events can overshadow real or spontaneous events?

4. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in what year?

5. Who wrote Crystallizing Public Opinion?

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