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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 - Section I-III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Boorstin states, in Chapter 3 - Section I, that in today's travel there is very little what?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Time.
(c) Interaction.
(d) Risk.

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

3. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 1 - Section V, that the advances made in American society have served to "blur the edges of" what?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Truth.
(c) Commercialism.
(d) Reality.

4. Who developed a technique of calling morning press conferences to announce afternoon press conferences in order to enhance his prestige?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) Joseph McCarthy.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Dwight Eisenhower.

5. In what year was Charles Lindbergh's infant son kidnapped and murdered in the "Crime of the Century"?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What title did Mussolini go by after 3 years in office as Prime Minister?

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

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

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

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