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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. When was Reader's Digest founded?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1911.

2. What word refers to that which is important, highly significant, or consequential?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Greatness.
(c) Fame.
(d) Poverty.

3. When did Karl Baedeker institute a star system in his travel guides?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1867.

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

5. What type of book binding begins with the signatures of the book as loose pages which are then clamped together?
(a) Oversew.
(b) Bind-sew.
(c) Undersew.
(d) Cross stitch.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Karl Baedeker die?

2. Pseudo-events tend to do what to the human experience, according to Boorstin?

3. When was the Ford Model T introduced?

4. How many cars were registered in the United States in 1900?

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

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