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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. In Chapter 1 - Section IV, Boorstin suggests that leaks are a form of what by governments?
(a) Arbitration.
(b) Peace negotiations.
(c) Testing.
(d) Amnesty.

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

3. What major movie studio did Adolf Zukor originate?
(a) Universal Studios.
(b) General Film Company.
(c) Paramount Pictures.
(d) MGM.

4. In Chapter 5 - Section IV, Boorstin describes how the appearance of advertising has caused a movement from focusing on truth to focusing on what?
(a) Credibility.
(b) Desire.
(c) Need.
(d) Commerce.

5. Where was Karl Baedeker born?
(a) Poland.
(b) Russia.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Essen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something?

2. Boorstin claims that in the effort to make art and literature accessible to all, these forms of expression were what?

3. What word does Boorstin suggest we created out of the need to express the specialness of that which is real, in Chapter 6 - Section III?

4. What states that the more we create images to "expand experience" the more we inevitably narrow experience?

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

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