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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. Boorstin writes that critical history and critical biography have reduced heroes to mere pawns of what?
(a) Chess.
(b) Social forces.
(c) The public.
(d) The media.

2. Boorstin begins Chapter 5 - Section II discussing the differences between "ideal-thinking" and what?
(a) Concept thinking.
(b) Logic thinking.
(c) Image thinking.
(d) Commercial thinking.

3. When did P.T. Barnum purchase Scudder's American Museum?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1841.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1867.

4. What refers to a person or thing that draws, allures, or entices?
(a) Attraction.
(b) Fortress.
(c) Cultivation.
(d) Seductress.

5. The argument is made, in Chapter 3 - Section IV, that the objects in museums were ____ from the homes of the wealthy and famous to be available for all to view.
(a) Stolen.
(b) Hijacked.
(c) Smuggled.
(d) Liberated.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the third characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?

4. What is the fourth characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?

5. What term refers to widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character of renown and public eminence?

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