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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 something that exists independently of ideas concerning it?
(a) Pseudo-event.
(b) Action.
(c) Reality.
(d) Experience.

2. What word does Boorstin suggest we created out of the need to express the specialness of that which is real, in Chapter 6 - Section III?
(a) Arbitration.
(b) Capitalization.
(c) Non-fiction.
(d) Fiction.

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

4. When was Reader's Digest founded?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1922.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?

2. Boorstin writes that our enemies profit from the fact they are known only, or primarily, through their what?

3. What refers to the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something?

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

5. Who founded Reader's Digest?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Boorstin believe the American image is viewed negatively by other nations?

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

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

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

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

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