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

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

3. Boorstin states, in Chapter 3 - Section I, that in today's travel there is very little what?
(a) Risk.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Interaction.
(d) Time.

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

5. What people does Boorstin assert were able to express, ritualize, and create heroes, in Chapter 2 - Section II?
(a) Population.
(b) Public.
(c) Masses.
(d) Folks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin refer to propaganda as, in Chapter 1- Section IV?

2. In Chapter 1 - Section IV, Boorstin uses an example from the 1950s in which a story was released about an imminent attack by whom?

3. What refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s?

4. When did Mussolini become the Prime Minister of Italy?

5. Boorstin suggests that the graphic revolution and what else are mostly responsible for the abridgment and the mass production of art?

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