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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 - Section I-III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What people does Boorstin assert were able to express, ritualize, and create heroes, in Chapter 2 - Section II?
(a) Masses.
(b) Folks.
(c) Population.
(d) Public.

2. Boorstin states that psychological analysis has effectively turned the actions of heroes into compensations for what?
(a) Internal neurosis.
(b) Internal psychology.
(c) Internal insignificance.
(d) Internal psychopathology.

3. When did Karl Baedeker die?
(a) 1805.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1859.

4. In what year did urban tourism in America become a profitable industry, as the number of tour agencies, railroad passenger departments, guidebook publishers, and travel writers grew at a fast pace?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1856.

5. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 2 - Section 1, that heroes can now be what?
(a) Emulated.
(b) Destroyed.
(c) Copied.
(d) Mass-produced.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Adolf Hitler born?

3. In what year did popular publications print articles showing the car was cheaper to operate than the horse?

4. Boorstin opens Chapter 3 - Section VI talking about the changes in our understanding of time and what?

5. Boorstin posits that in addition to destroying old heroes ____ has made it difficult to create and recognize new heroes.

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