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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. When was Publishers' Weekly first published?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1959.

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

3. Boorstin writes in Chapter 5 that "God himself becomes not a power but" what?
(a) An advertisement.
(b) An image.
(c) A myth.
(d) A nonentity.

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

5. In Chapter 5, Boorstin asserts that we have made a shift from moral value to what value?
(a) Commercial.
(b) Religious.
(c) Independent.
(d) Narcissistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5 - Section IV, Boorstin states, "By sharpening our images we have blurred all our" what?

2. What refers to a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position?

3. What term means to make uniform or similar, as in composition or function?

4. How much were tickets on Thomas Cook's first train tour?

5. What term refers to that which is of foreign origin or character, not native, introduced from abroad, but not fully naturalized or acclimatized?

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