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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 - Section I-IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boorstin call "a person who is known for his well-knownness"?
(a) Debutante.
(b) Politician.
(c) Celebrity.
(d) Heiress.

2. 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) 1900.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1959.

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

4. Boorstin asserts that the influx of pseudo-events has caused the confusion of participant and what roles?
(a) Instigator.
(b) Viewer.
(c) Creator.
(d) Catalyst.

5. Where was Karl Baedeker born?
(a) Russia.
(b) Essen.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 1 - Section IV, Boorstin uses an example from the 1950s in which a story was released about an imminent attack by whom?

3. Boorstin claims that in the effort to make art and literature accessible to all, these forms of expression were what?

4. In what year did Karl Baedeker start his publishing company?

5. When was Al Capone indicted for income tax evasion and various violations of the Volstead Act?

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