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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. Where was Al Capone born?
(a) Naperville, IL.
(b) Queens, NY.
(c) Chicago, IL.
(d) Booklyn, NY.

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

3. Where was Karl Baedeker observed to drop a pea on every twentieth step of the staircase to the roof, so he could report the number of steps accurately?
(a) Milan Cathedral.
(b) The Sistine Chapel.
(c) The Louvre.
(d) St. Patrick Cathedral.

4. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 2 - Section 1, that heroes can now be what?
(a) Mass-produced.
(b) Emulated.
(c) Copied.
(d) Destroyed.

5. With whom did Thomas Cook form a partnership and rename the travel agency as Thomas Cook and Son?
(a) John A. Mason Cook.
(b) Thomas Cook, Jr.
(c) Alexander Mason Cook.
(d) Andrew Michael Cook.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boorstin opens Chapter 3 - Section VI talking about the changes in our understanding of time and what?

2. What, according to the author, is always in the present and requires a constant stream of publicity and pseudo-events to maintain its status?

3. What does Boorstin claim increased the ease of creation and transmission of several different types of media?

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

5. The argument is made, in Chapter 3 - Section IV, that the objects in museums were ____ from the homes of the wealthy and famous to be available for all to view.

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