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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Boorstin writes that the amount of dissociation has become so absolute that what no longer feels real?
(a) The pseudo-event.
(b) The pseudo-reality.
(c) The media.
(d) The natural.

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

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

7. Who developed an early printing press in 1436?
(a) Galileo Galilei.
(b) Stephan Michaelson.
(c) Johannes Gutenberg.
(d) Henry Watson.

8. What refers to something that exists independently of ideas concerning it?
(a) Reality.
(b) Action.
(c) Experience.
(d) Pseudo-event.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Daniel J. Boorstin born?

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

3. Boorstin suggests in Chapter 6 - Section III that Americans live in a sort of what?

4. What refers to a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible?

5. What is the fifth characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?

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