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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 the hotel coupon introduced to the touring industry in London?
(a) 1846.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1959.

2. What French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, and photographer is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism?
(a) Jean Baudrillard.
(b) Michael Foucault.
(c) Jean Michele Foucault.
(d) Jean Francois.

3. What does Boorstin write essentially means that people have accepted and bought into the image that we are trying to uphold?
(a) Archetypes.
(b) Standards.
(c) Prestige.
(d) Ideals.

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

5. Boorstin asserts that the influx of pseudo-events has caused the confusion of participant and what roles?
(a) Catalyst.
(b) Creator.
(c) Instigator.
(d) Viewer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin refer to propaganda as, in Chapter 1- Section IV?

2. What system does Boorstin assert affected "traditional forms of achievement," in Chapter 4 - Section VIII?

3. What term is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy?

4. Where was Karl Baedeker observed to drop a pea on every twentieth step of the staircase to the roof, so he could report the number of steps accurately?

5. Boorstin writes that the image must exist in a kind of liminal state "between expectation and" what?

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