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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 - Section IV-VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Boorstin posits that in addition to destroying old heroes ____ has made it difficult to create and recognize new heroes.
(a) News media.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Technology.
(d) The printing press.

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?
(a) Iran.
(b) Iraq.
(c) China.
(d) Russia.

3. Who invented the steam powered rotary printing press in 1843 in the United States?
(a) Johannes Gutenberg.
(b) Henry Watson.
(c) Stephan Michaelson.
(d) Richard M. Hoe.

4. 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.
(a) Liberated.
(b) Hijacked.
(c) Smuggled.
(d) Stolen.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did P.T. Barnum purchase Scudder's American Museum?

2. Boorstin writes that critical history and critical biography have reduced heroes to mere pawns of what?

3. When was Reader's Digest founded?

4. What book by Walter Lippman does Boorstin discuss in Chapter 5 - Section VI?

5. Whose best-known films are The Ten Commandments, Cleopatra, and The Greatest Show on Earth?

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