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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Charles Lindbergh born?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1911.

3. Boorstin states that psychological analysis has effectively turned the actions of heroes into compensations for what?
(a) Internal insignificance.
(b) Internal psychology.
(c) Internal psychopathology.
(d) Internal neurosis.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Boorstin refer to propaganda as, in Chapter 1- Section IV?

3. What was the distance of Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic?

4. What is the first aspect of a pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?

5. When was Mein Kampf published?

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