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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 does Boorstin assert inevitably give a false representation of a country because they have been specially selected and taken from context?
(a) Tour guides.
(b) Restaurants.
(c) The media.
(d) Tourist attractions.

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

3. 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) 1959.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1900.

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

5. What is the second characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is simplified.
(b) It is believable.
(c) It is ambiguous.
(d) It is synthetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, Boorstin asserts that we have made a shift from moral value to what value?

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

3. What does Boorstin assert has been provided in exotic locations, in Chapter 3 - Section IV?

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

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

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