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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. How many cars were registered in the United States in 1900?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 8,000.

2. Who opened the first motel as a new form of accommodation in Memphis, Tennessee in 1952?
(a) William Berkshire.
(b) James Anderson.
(c) Kemmons Wilson.
(d) Conrad Hilton.

3. In Chapter 5, Boorstin asserts that we have made a shift from moral value to what value?
(a) Commercial.
(b) Narcissistic.
(c) Independent.
(d) Religious.

4. When was Adolf Hitler born?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1911.

5. In what year did Karl Baedeker start his publishing company?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1859.

Short Answer Questions

1. What title did Mussolini go by after 3 years in office as Prime Minister?

2. When did P.T. Barnum purchase Scudder's American Museum?

3. Boorstin states that psychological analysis has effectively turned the actions of heroes into compensations for what?

4. What political party did Benito Mussolini lead?

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

(see the answer key)

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