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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics?
(a) Aestheics.
(b) Anaesthetics.
(c) Media studies.
(d) Linguistics.

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

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

4. 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) Ideals.
(c) Archetype.
(d) Prestige.

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

6. Boorstin begins Chapter 5 - Section II discussing the differences between "ideal-thinking" and what?
(a) Commercial thinking.
(b) Logic thinking.
(c) Concept thinking.
(d) Image thinking.

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

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

9. 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) Schlitz Beer.
(c) Coors Beer.
(d) Budweiser Beer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What system does Boorstin assert affected "traditional forms of achievement," in Chapter 4 - Section VIII?

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

4. In Chapter 6, Boorstin suggests that the greatest challenge Americans are now dealing with is what?

5. Daniel J. Boorstin was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until when?

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