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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did P.T. Barnum purchase Scudder's American Museum?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1859.

2. 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) Broadway.
(c) SoHo.
(d) West End.

3. What Muzak designer suggested that his company was more the business of programming than the business of music?
(a) Adolf Zukor.
(b) Carl Laemmle.
(c) Donald O'Neill.
(d) James Morrison.

4. What major movie studio did Carl Laemmle originate?
(a) Paramount Pictures.
(b) Universal Studios.
(c) General Film Company.
(d) MGM.

5. Boorstin suggests that the graphic revolution and what else are mostly responsible for the abridgment and the mass production of art?
(a) Commercialism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Media.
(d) Capitalism.

6. What refers to reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes?
(a) Prestige.
(b) Narcissism.
(c) Pseudo-reality.
(d) Understanding.

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

8. What is the fourth characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is believable.
(b) It is vivid.
(c) It is ambiguous.
(d) It is synthetic.

9. Boorstin writes that our enemies profit from the fact they are known only, or primarily, through their what?
(a) Ideals.
(b) Images.
(c) Reality.
(d) Politics.

10. What refers to a single complete page, front and back, in a finished book?
(a) Press page.
(b) Single.
(c) Double.
(d) Leaf.

11. What refers to a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment?
(a) Objective.
(b) Intention.
(c) Obstacle.
(d) Desire.

12. Who founded Reader's Digest?
(a) James Huntington.
(b) Michael Cinquino.
(c) DeWitt Wallace.
(d) Andrew Kaempfer.

13. Whose best-known films are The Ten Commandments, Cleopatra, and The Greatest Show on Earth?
(a) Carl Laemmle.
(b) Mike Nichols.
(c) Cecil B. DeMille.
(d) Adolf Zukor.

14. What refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s?
(a) Romance fiction.
(b) Pulp fiction.
(c) Dirt fiction.
(d) Dime store fiction.

15. In Chapter 6 - Section I, Boorstin asserts that America has experienced a move from what to images?
(a) Concepts.
(b) Morals.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Ideals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boorstin begins Chapter 5 - Section II discussing the differences between "ideal-thinking" and what?

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

3. In Chapter 6 - Section II, Boorstin warns that America has spent too much time attempting to "perfect our image rather than" what?

4. What production company, recognizing that actors and actresses would demand higher pay if they became well known, refused to give their names?

5. 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?

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