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

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

3. In what year did Thomas Cook's train tours first go to Scotland?
(a) 1846.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1859.

4. When was the hotel coupon introduced to the touring industry in London?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1846.

5. According to Walter Lippman, a ____ is a way of giving rapid meaning to an external person or situation to help one orient to a world full of confusing and overwhelming experiences.
(a) Archetype.
(b) Pseudo-event.
(c) Stereotype.
(d) Propaganda.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin describe as a kind of pseudo-event, especially in the sense that they were "more vivid and more impressive than the spontaneous original"?

2. What is the fourth quality of the pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?

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

4. What was the distance of Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic?

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

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