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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 - Section V-XI.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the departure site for Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean ?
(a) Roosevelt Field, NY.
(b) Lockton Field, NY.
(c) Fort Williams Field, NC.
(d) Anderson Field, MA.

3. What term is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy?
(a) Hyper-reality.
(b) Pseudo-event.
(c) Nonreality.
(d) Superreality.

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

5. Where is Reader's Digest based?
(a) San Francisco, California.
(b) Portland, Oregon.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Chappaqua, New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to something that is changed or modified to suit new conditions or needs?

2. What production company, recognizing that actors and actresses would demand higher pay if they became well known, refused to give their names?

3. What system does Boorstin assert affected "traditional forms of achievement," in Chapter 4 - Section VIII?

4. Who wrote Crystallizing Public Opinion?

5. What was one of Charles Lindbergh's nicknames?

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