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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. Pseudo-events, according to Boorstin, create distortion through what?
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Ambiguity.
(c) Complication.
(d) Falsehood.

2. What term refers to the process of making something commercial?
(a) Propone.
(b) Advertise.
(c) Catalyze.
(d) Commoditize.

3. Who did Charles Lindbergh marry?
(a) Anne Morrow.
(b) Elizabeth Winchester.
(c) Mary Anne Doherty.
(d) Sarah Morrow.

4. What was one of Charles Lindbergh's nicknames?
(a) Wings.
(b) Lucky Lindy.
(c) The Flyer.
(d) Lucky Chuck.

5. In what year was Charles Lindbergh's infant son kidnapped and murdered in the "Crime of the Century"?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Karl Baedeker start his publishing company?

2. When was Al Capone indicted for income tax evasion and various violations of the Volstead Act?

3. Boorstin claims that in the effort to make art and literature accessible to all, these forms of expression were what?

4. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 1 - Section V, that the advances made in American society have served to "blur the edges of" what?

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

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