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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Al Capone born?
(a) Queens, NY.
(b) Booklyn, NY.
(c) Chicago, IL.
(d) Naperville, IL.

2. What does Boorstin assert has been provided in exotic locations, in Chapter 3 - Section IV?
(a) Money exchange stations.
(b) Local atmosphere.
(c) Exotic restaurants.
(d) Tour guides.

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

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

5. What, according to the author, is always in the present and requires a constant stream of publicity and pseudo-events to maintain its status?
(a) Political favor.
(b) Heroism.
(c) Celebrity.
(d) Public favor.

6. When was the Ford Model T introduced?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1895.

7. In what year did Karl Baedeker start his publishing company?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1859.

8. When did Thomas Cook conduct his first train tour?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1841.

9. What was the departure site for Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean ?
(a) Anderson Field, MA.
(b) Lockton Field, NY.
(c) Fort Williams Field, NC.
(d) Roosevelt Field, NY.

10. Boorstin posits that in addition to destroying old heroes ____ has made it difficult to create and recognize new heroes.
(a) Technology.
(b) News media.
(c) Democracy.
(d) The printing press.

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

12. When was Adolf Hitler born?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1911.

13. 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) Commerce.
(c) Truth.
(d) Commercialism.

14. What term refers to the process of making something commercial?
(a) Propone.
(b) Advertise.
(c) Commoditize.
(d) Catalyze.

15. Who developed a technique of calling morning press conferences to announce afternoon press conferences in order to enhance his prestige?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Joseph McCarthy.
(d) Dwight Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character of renown and public eminence?

2. In his argument in Chapter 2 - Section IV, what does Boorstin suggest are created by the media?

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

4. What term means to make uniform or similar, as in composition or function?

5. Who does Boorstin claim was a major figure of presidential creation of pseudo-events, including his solidification of the presidential press conference and his fireside chats?

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