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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. Boorstin writes that critical history and critical biography have reduced heroes to mere pawns of what?
(a) The public.
(b) Social forces.
(c) Chess.
(d) The media.

2. In Chapter 1 - Section IV, Boorstin discusses the formation of what as a communication device for government officials?
(a) The leak.
(b) The FBI.
(c) The wire tap.
(d) The mobile phone.

3. In his argument in Chapter 2 - Section IV, what does Boorstin suggest create themselves?
(a) Celebrities.
(b) Heroes.
(c) Pseudo-events.
(d) Politicians.

4. What refers to a person or thing that draws, allures, or entices?
(a) Fortress.
(b) Seductress.
(c) Attraction.
(d) Cultivation.

5. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) From Hero to Celebrity: The Human Pseudo-event.
(b) From Shapes to Shadows: Dissolving Forms.
(c) From News Gathering to News Making: A Flood of Pseudo-events.
(d) From Traveler to Tourist: The Lost Art of Travel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the plane that Charles Lindbergh made his flight across the Atlantic in?

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

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

4. How many people were aboard Thomas Cook's first train tour to Scotland?

5. Who wrote Mein Kampf?

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