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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 - Section IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Al Capone indicted for income tax evasion and various violations of the Volstead Act?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1941.

2. In Chapter 1 - Section II, Boorstin discusses the temptation of newsmen to make images that were what?
(a) Probable.
(b) Believable.
(c) Newsworthy.
(d) Aligned politically.

3. In his argument in Chapter 2 - Section IV, what does Boorstin suggest are created by the media?
(a) Heroes.
(b) Celebrities.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Pseudo-events.

4. In what year did urban tourism in America become a profitable industry, as the number of tour agencies, railroad passenger departments, guidebook publishers, and travel writers grew at a fast pace?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1856.

5. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 1 - Section V, that the advances made in American society have served to "blur the edges of" what?
(a) Reality.
(b) Commercialism.
(c) Truth.
(d) Commerce.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 1 - Section IV, Boorstin discusses the formation of what as a communication device for government officials?

3. Boorstin writes that the amount of dissociation has become so absolute that what no longer feels real?

4. Boorstin writes that advertising helps to make a shift from what is true to what is what?

5. In Chapter 6 - Section II, Boorstin warns that America has spent too much time attempting to "perfect our image rather than" what?

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