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

2. What is the third characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is synthetic.
(b) It is ambiguous.
(c) It is believable.
(d) It is passive.

3. Whose best-known films are The Ten Commandments, Cleopatra, and The Greatest Show on Earth?
(a) Carl Laemmle.
(b) Mike Nichols.
(c) Cecil B. DeMille.
(d) Adolf Zukor.

4. What refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s?
(a) Dime store fiction.
(b) Pulp fiction.
(c) Romance fiction.
(d) Dirt fiction.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When was Reader's Digest founded?

4. What major movie studio did Carl Laemmle originate?

5. The second aspect of successful advertising discussed by Boorstin in Chapter 5 - Section IV is what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the first aspect of "successful advertising" described by Boorstin? What example does he provide?

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

5. What does Boorstin write of the evolution of linguistics and the pseudo-event in Chapter 6 - Section III?

6. How does Boorstin define movies as a pseudo-event?

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

8. What does Boorstin write of stage and film adaptations in Chapter 4 - Section VI?

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

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

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