View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Muzak designer suggested that his company was more the business of programming than the business of music?
(a) Adolf Zukor.
(b) Donald O'Neill.
(c) James Morrison.
(d) Carl Laemmle.

3. In Chapter 1 - Section V, Boorstin discusses a change in the way people relate to truth and to what?
(a) Media.
(b) Religion.
(c) Image.
(d) Ambiguity.

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

5. In Chapter 1 - Section IV, Boorstin discusses the formation of what as a communication device for government officials?
(a) The FBI.
(b) The leak.
(c) The wire tap.
(d) The mobile phone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin claim increased the ease of creation and transmission of several different types of media?

2. When was the hotel coupon introduced to the touring industry in London?

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

4. Boorstin suggests we are in danger if we forget that the experiences which can't be captured by the camera can still be captured in a what?

5. Boorstin begins Chapter 5 - Section II discussing the differences between "ideal-thinking" and what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 246 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample