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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay 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 smoke effect.
(c) The mirror effect.
(d) The pseufo-event.

2. Who founded Reader's Digest?
(a) Andrew Kaempfer.
(b) Michael Cinquino.
(c) James Huntington.
(d) DeWitt Wallace.

3. What major movie studio did Adolf Zukor originate?
(a) General Film Company.
(b) MGM.
(c) Paramount Pictures.
(d) Universal Studios.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, Boorstin asserts that we have made a shift from moral value to what value?

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

4. When was Reader's Digest founded?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What shift in the American psyche does Boorstin describe in Chapter 6 - Section I?

2. What is Boorstin's subject in Chapter 6 - Section IV? How is the effect discussed defined?

3. What suggestions does Boorstin give to the American people at the close of the book?

4. What does Boorstin assert are the greatest challenges for America and our relationship to the rest of the world?

5. How does Boorstin define "passivity" in the image in Chapter 5 - Section I?

6. What does Boorstin assert is the impact of art reproductions?

7. What does Boorstin believe is responsible for the mass production of art? What effect does this cause?

8. What does Boorstin suggest was the impact of Reader's Digest on the populace? What is Reader's Digest?

9. How does Boorstin compare domestic and foreign issues in Chapter 6 - Section III?

10. What changes to the printing industry does Boorstin describe in Chapter 4 - Section I?

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