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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. Who invented the steam powered rotary printing press in 1843 in the United States?
(a) Henry Watson.
(b) Richard M. Hoe.
(c) Stephan Michaelson.
(d) Johannes Gutenberg.

2. What word refers to that which is coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency, without effort or premeditation, natural and unconstrained?
(a) Combustive.
(b) Instantaneous.
(c) Spontaneous.
(d) Structured.

3. Who wrote Mein Kampf?
(a) Benito Mussolini.
(b) Friedrich Engels.
(c) Adolph Hitler.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

4. What book of Walter Lippman's does Boorstin cite, in Chapter 1 - Section V?
(a) Mein Kampf.
(b) Sociological Justices.
(c) Public Opinion.
(d) The Origins of Family.

5. Boorstin opens Chapter 3 - Section VI talking about the changes in our understanding of time and what?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Travel.
(c) Space.
(d) Family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin assert inevitably give a false representation of a country because they have been specially selected and taken from context?

2. When was Daniel J. Boorstin born?

3. What term refers to that pertaining to one's own or a particular country as apart from other countries?

4. What word refers to that which is important, highly significant, or consequential?

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

(see the answer key)

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