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

2. What word refers to that which is coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency, without effort or premeditation, natural and unconstrained?
(a) Structured.
(b) Spontaneous.
(c) Combustive.
(d) Instantaneous.

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

4. In what year did Thomas Cook's train tours first go to Scotland?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1846.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Karl Baedeker born?

2. When was Thomas Cook born?

3. What people does Boorstin assert were able to express, ritualize, and create heroes, in Chapter 2 - Section II?

4. What book by Walter Lippman does Boorstin discuss in Chapter 5 - Section VI?

5. Who invented the steam powered rotary printing press in 1843 in the United States?

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