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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 6, Boorstin suggests that the greatest challenge Americans are now dealing with is what?
(a) Illusion.
(b) Reality.
(c) Foreign affairs.
(d) Advertising.

2. What refers to purpose or attitude toward the effect of one's actions or conduct?
(a) Desire.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Intention.
(d) Action.

3. 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) Reality.
(c) Illusions.
(d) Ideals.

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

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

6. What book by Walter Lippman does Boorstin discuss in Chapter 5 - Section VI?
(a) Mein Kampf.
(b) Public Opinion.
(c) Beyond Good and Evil.
(d) The Origins of Family.

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

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

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

10. What word does Boorstin suggest we created out of the need to express the specialness of that which is real, in Chapter 6 - Section III?
(a) Arbitration.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Capitalization.
(d) Non-fiction.

11. Where is Reader's Digest based?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) San Francisco, California.
(c) Portland, Oregon.
(d) Chappaqua, New York.

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

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

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

15. What states that the more we create images to "expand experience" the more we inevitably narrow experience?
(a) The smoke effect.
(b) The pseudo-effect.
(c) The pseufo-event.
(d) The mirror effect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boorstin writes that we are left with the "invention of experience" rather than its what?

2. In Chapter 5 - Section IV, Boorstin describes how the appearance of advertising has caused a movement from focusing on truth to focusing on what?

3. Boorstin suggests we are in danger if we forget that the experiences which can't be captured by the camera can still be captured in a what?

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

5. When was Reader's Digest founded?

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