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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 opens Chapter 3 - Section VI talking about the changes in our understanding of time and what?
(a) Travel.
(b) Space.
(c) Family.
(d) Commerce.

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

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

4. How many people did Thomas Cook claim to have arranged to attend the Great Exhibition?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 200,000.

5. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in what year?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to that which is not participating readily or actively?

2. Boorstin asserts, in Chapter 2 - Section I, that Americans have fooled themselves about how much _____ is contained in the world and in individuals.

3. Where was Karl Baedeker born?

4. What term refers to widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character of renown and public eminence?

5. In what year was Charles Lindbergh's infant son kidnapped and murdered in the "Crime of the Century"?

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