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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Boorstin writes in Chapter 5 that "God himself becomes not a power but" what?
(a) An advertisement.
(b) A nonentity.
(c) A myth.
(d) An image.

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

3. When does Boorstin say books began to be made cheaper, due to a variety of factors, in Chapter 4 - Section I?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1910s.
(c) 1890s.
(d) 1840s.

4. 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) Photographs.
(b) News media.
(c) Movies.
(d) Books.

5. The third aspect of successful advertising discussed by Boorstin in Chapter 5 - Section IV is what?
(a) Appeal of the self-fulfilling prophecy.
(b) Ambiguity.
(c) Appeal of the half-intelligible.
(d) Appeal of the contrived.

6. What company advertised the fact that the bottles were "steam-sterilized," neglecting to mention the fact that all the other beer companies used the same process?
(a) Miller Beer.
(b) Budweiser Beer.
(c) Coors Beer.
(d) Schlitz Beer.

7. What French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, and photographer is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism?
(a) Jean Baudrillard.
(b) Jean Francois.
(c) Jean Michele Foucault.
(d) Michael Foucault.

8. Boorstin claims that in the effort to make art and literature accessible to all, these forms of expression were what?
(a) Disembodied.
(b) Destroyed.
(c) Embellished.
(d) Diminished.

9. Daniel J. Boorstin was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until when?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1979.

10. 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) Social narcissism.
(b) Creative narcissism.
(c) Pseudo-reality.
(d) Capitalist thought.

11. When was Daniel J. Boorstin born?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1914.

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

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

14. Boorstin suggests in Chapter 6 - Section III that Americans live in a sort of what?
(a) Pseudo-reality.
(b) Nonreality.
(c) Pseudo-consciousness.
(d) Hyperreality.

15. In Chapter 6 - Section II, Boorstin warns that America has spent too much time attempting to "perfect our image rather than" what?
(a) Our foreign policy.
(b) Our ideals.
(c) Our politics.
(d) Ourselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What major movie studio did Carl Laemmle originate?

2. What refers to something that exists independently of ideas concerning it?

3. In Chapter 6 - Section I, Boorstin suggests that America return to its ____ and cease communicating with the rest of the world in image.

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

5. What refers to a single complete page, front and back, in a finished book?

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