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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 refers to the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something?
(a) Action.
(b) Reality.
(c) Experience.
(d) Pseudo-experience.

2. In Chapter 6 - Section I, Boorstin suggests that America return to its ____ and cease communicating with the rest of the world in image.
(a) Ideals.
(b) Archetype.
(c) Standards.
(d) Prestige.

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

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

5. Boorstin concludes that the United States in now locked in a pattern of "____" in which "we have fallen in love with our own image."
(a) Capitalist thought.
(b) Creative narcissism.
(c) Social narcissism.
(d) Pseudo-reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What book by Walter Lippman does Boorstin discuss in Chapter 5 - Section VI?

3. Whose best-known films are The Ten Commandments, Cleopatra, and The Greatest Show on Earth?

4. When was Daniel J. Boorstin born?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What suggestion does Boorstin state for Americans to improve their image to the world?

3. How does Boorstin define "ideal-thinking" and "image-thinking"?

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

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

6. How does Boorstin view the impact of advertising on the American psyche?

7. What changes took place in the binding industry for printmaking? What effect did this have?

8. What is the fourth aspect of the image, according to Boorstin in Chapter 5 - Section I?

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

10. What is the third aspect of "successful advertising" described by Boorstin? How is it defined?

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