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

2. Pseudo-events tend to do what to the human experience, according to Boorstin?
(a) Objectify it.
(b) Narrow it.
(c) Embellish it.
(d) Diminish it.

3. When was Mein Kampf published?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1900.

4. What does Boorstin refer to pseudo-events as, in Chapter 1 - Section IV?
(a) Stereotypes.
(b) Appealing falsehoods.
(c) Ambiguous falsehoods.
(d) Ambiguous truths.

5. When was Benito Mussolini born?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1905.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to that which is important, highly significant, or consequential?

2. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 2 - Section 1, that heroes can now be what?

3. When did Mussolini become the Prime Minister of Italy?

4. Pseudo-events, according to Boorstin, create distortion through what?

5. What word means to represent concretely, to externalize?

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