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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. With whom did Charles Lindbergh sign a contract for his story of the famous monoplane flight?
(a) New York Times.
(b) CBS.
(c) Chicago Tribune.
(d) USA Today.

2. Where did Conrad Hilton purchase his first hotel?
(a) Canada.
(b) New York.
(c) Mexico.
(d) France.

3. What is the first characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is believable.
(b) It is synthetic.
(c) It is ambiguous.
(d) It is simplified.

4. Boorstin asserts, in Chapter 2 - Section I, that Americans have fooled themselves about how much _____ is contained in the world and in individuals.
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Greatness.
(d) Fame.

5. What refers to a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative or meta-narrative?
(a) Post-modernism.
(b) Nonreality.
(c) Pseudo-event.
(d) Hyper-reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did popular publications print articles showing the car was cheaper to operate than the horse?

2. 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"?

3. What is the second quality of the pseudo-event described by Boorstin?

4. What does Boorstin refer to pseudo-events as, in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

5. Who opened the first motel as a new form of accommodation in Memphis, Tennessee in 1952?

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