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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Charles Lindbergh born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1911.

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

3. When did Al Capone die?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1947.

4. In his argument in Chapter 2 - Section IV, what does Boorstin suggest are created by the media?
(a) Celebrities.
(b) Pseudo-events.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Heroes.

5. When was Publishers' Weekly first published?
(a) 1849.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1872.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the departure site for Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean ?

2. Boorstin opens Chapter 3 - Section VI talking about the changes in our understanding of time and what?

3. With whom did Thomas Cook form a partnership and rename the travel agency as Thomas Cook and Son?

4. When did the development of hotels with leisure complexes become a popular development in the United States?

5. What system does Boorstin assert affected "traditional forms of achievement," in Chapter 4 - Section VIII?

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