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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to that which is of foreign origin or character, not native, introduced from abroad, but not fully naturalized or acclimatized?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Other.
(c) Indiginous.
(d) Exotic.

2. What people does Boorstin assert were able to express, ritualize, and create heroes, in Chapter 2 - Section II?
(a) Masses.
(b) Folks.
(c) Population.
(d) Public.

3. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) From Shapes to Shadows: Dissolving Forms.
(b) From News Gathering to News Making: A Flood of Pseudo-events.
(c) From Traveler to Tourist: The Lost Art of Travel.
(d) From Hero to Celebrity: The Human Pseudo-event.

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

5. What is the third characteristic of the pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is intended as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(b) Its purpose is to be recreated or reported.
(c) It is intentionally created.
(d) It is ambiguous.

6. What political party did Benito Mussolini lead?
(a) The Nazi Party.
(b) The Italian Nationalist Party.
(c) National Fascist Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

7. What term does Boorstin assert has been relegated to the experiences of young children or naïve adults?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Hero.
(c) Celebrity.
(d) Fairy tales.

8. In what year did popular publications print articles showing the car was cheaper to operate than the horse?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1925.

9. Established by Boorstin, what is the second way pseudo-events can overshadow real or spontaneous events?
(a) They are more dramatic.
(b) They are less dramatic.
(c) They can be repeated.
(d) They are easier to distribute.

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

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

12. How many people were aboard Thomas Cook's first train tour to Scotland?
(a) 100.
(b) 200.
(c) 250.
(d) 350.

13. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 2 - Section 1, that heroes can now be what?
(a) Mass-produced.
(b) Emulated.
(c) Copied.
(d) Destroyed.

14. When did the development of hotels with leisure complexes become a popular development in the United States?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1930s.

15. The argument is made, in Chapter 3 - Section IV, that the objects in museums were ____ from the homes of the wealthy and famous to be available for all to view.
(a) Smuggled.
(b) Hijacked.
(c) Stolen.
(d) Liberated.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Mussolini become the Prime Minister of Italy?

2. Where was Al Capone born?

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

4. What was one of Charles Lindbergh's nicknames?

5. When was Charles Lindbergh born?

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