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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. When did Al Capone die?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1949.

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

3. What term refers to that which is of foreign origin or character, not native, introduced from abroad, but not fully naturalized or acclimatized?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Indiginous.
(c) Exotic.
(d) Other.

4. What term does Boorstin assert has been relegated to the experiences of young children or naïve adults?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Fairy tales.
(c) Celebrity.
(d) Hero.

5. In what year did Karl Baedeker start his publishing company?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Thomas Cook form a partnership and rename the travel agency as Thomas Cook and Son?

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

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

4. What word refers to that which is coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency, without effort or premeditation, natural and unconstrained?

5. Where was Al Capone born?

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