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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 smoke effect.
(b) The mirror effect.
(c) The pseufo-event.
(d) The pseudo-effect.

2. In Chapter 5, Boorstin asserts that we have made a shift from moral value to what value?
(a) Religious.
(b) Independent.
(c) Commercial.
(d) Narcissistic.

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

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) Prestige.
(d) Archetype.

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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 foreign policy.
(c) Our politics.
(d) Our ideals.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of book binding begins with the signatures of the book as loose pages which are then clamped together?

2. When was Daniel J. Boorstin born?

3. Who developed an early printing press in 1436?

4. Boorstin writes that the amount of dissociation has become so absolute that what no longer feels real?

5. 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?

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