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

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

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

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

5. Boorstin states, regarding foreign affairs, "I suspect we suffer abroad simply because people know America through" what?
(a) Images.
(b) Television.
(c) Nonreality.
(d) Pseudo-events.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boorstin writes in Chapter 6 - Section III, "We fill our lives not with experience but with the ____ of experience."

2. When was Daniel J. Boorstin born?

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

4. What editor and co-editor of Publishers' Weekly guided the publication through much of the 20th century?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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