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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boorstin describe as a kind of pseudo-event, especially in the sense that they were "more vivid and more impressive than the spontaneous original"?
(a) Movies.
(b) News media.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Books.

2. Boorstin concludes that the United States in now locked in a pattern of "____" in which "we have fallen in love with our own image."
(a) Creative narcissism.
(b) Pseudo-reality.
(c) Capitalist thought.
(d) Social narcissism.

3. What type of book binding begins with the signatures of the book as loose pages which are then clamped together?
(a) Oversew.
(b) Undersew.
(c) Cross stitch.
(d) Bind-sew.

4. Boorstin concludes Chapter 6 - Section V by stating that we must be able to reach beyond into novel experiences and ideas and thus become aware of our what?
(a) Images.
(b) Illusions.
(c) Reality.
(d) Ideals.

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

6. What refers to the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something?
(a) Experience.
(b) Action.
(c) Reality.
(d) Pseudo-experience.

7. What refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theater District, New York?
(a) Main Stage.
(b) SoHo.
(c) Broadway.
(d) West End.

8. In Chapter 6 - Section I, Boorstin suggests that America return to its ____ and cease communicating with the rest of the world in image.
(a) Standards.
(b) Prestige.
(c) Archetype.
(d) Ideals.

9. Boorstin writes that the image must exist in a kind of liminal state "between expectation and" what?
(a) Morality.
(b) Truth.
(c) Reality.
(d) Logic.

10. What does Boorstin assert arose spontaneously through "tradition, history, or by God,"are not made simple, are direct and active in the sense that they pull people forward?
(a) Ideals.
(b) Nonevents.
(c) Pseudo-events.
(d) Images.

11. What is the first characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is ambiguous.
(b) It is simplified.
(c) It is believable.
(d) It is synthetic.

12. What system does Boorstin assert affected "traditional forms of achievement," in Chapter 4 - Section VIII?
(a) Democracy.
(b) The star system.
(c) Communism.
(d) The caste system.

13. When was Publishers' Weekly first published?
(a) 1805.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1872.

14. What term refers to that pertaining to one's own or a particular country as apart from other countries?
(a) Foreign.
(b) Nationalist.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Domestic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Boorstin writes that our enemies profit from the fact they are known only, or primarily, through their what?

2. What is the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics?

3. When was Reader's Digest founded?

4. What Muzak designer suggested that his company was more the business of programming than the business of music?

5. What refers to reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes?

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