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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 major movie studio did Carl Laemmle originate?
(a) MGM.
(b) General Film Company.
(c) Universal Studios.
(d) Paramount Pictures.

2. Boorstin writes that the amount of dissociation has become so absolute that what no longer feels real?
(a) The pseudo-event.
(b) The natural.
(c) The media.
(d) The pseudo-reality.

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

4. What term refers to that pertaining to one's own or a particular country as apart from other countries?
(a) Nationalist.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Foreign.
(d) Domestic.

5. The second aspect of successful advertising discussed by Boorstin in Chapter 5 - Section IV is what?
(a) Appeal of the contrived.
(b) Ambiguity.
(c) Appeal of the self-fulfilling prophecy.
(d) Appeal of the half-intelligible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boorstin writes in Chapter 5 that "God himself becomes not a power but" what?

2. Who invented the steam powered rotary printing press in 1843 in the United States?

3. What refers to purpose or attitude toward the effect of one's actions or conduct?

4. When was Daniel J. Boorstin born?

5. What refers to a single complete page, front and back, in a finished book?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What was the impact of Muzak, according to Boorstin?

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

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

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

10. What are the first two aspects of images discussed by Boorstin in Chapter 5 - Section I?

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