View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 - Section IV-VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in what year?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1929.

2. What refers to a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative or meta-narrative?
(a) Nonreality.
(b) Hyper-reality.
(c) Pseudo-event.
(d) Post-modernism.

3. What was one of Charles Lindbergh's nicknames?
(a) Wings.
(b) Lucky Lindy.
(c) Lucky Chuck.
(d) The Flyer.

4. According to Walter Lippman, a ____ is a way of giving rapid meaning to an external person or situation to help one orient to a world full of confusing and overwhelming experiences.
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Propaganda.
(c) Archetype.
(d) Pseudo-event.

5. What is the first aspect of a pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?
(a) Its purpose is to be recreated or reported.
(b) It is ambiguous.
(c) It is intended as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(d) It is intentionally created.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of the "extravagant expectations" held by Americans, according to Boorstin?

2. When did Thomas Cook conduct his first train tour?

3. What term refers to that which is of foreign origin or character, not native, introduced from abroad, but not fully naturalized or acclimatized?

4. Who wrote Crystallizing Public Opinion?

5. What form of travel, initiated by Thomas Cook, had the traveler go independently, while Cook's agency charged for travel, food, and accommodation for a fixed period over any chosen route?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 253 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample