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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 - Section I-III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the departure site for Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean ?
(a) Lockton Field, NY.
(b) Anderson Field, MA.
(c) Roosevelt Field, NY.
(d) Fort Williams Field, NC.

2. When was Al Capone indicted for income tax evasion and various violations of the Volstead Act?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1919.

3. What was the distance of Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic?
(a) 3,600 miles.
(b) 2,500 miles.
(c) 3,000 miles.
(d) 4,000 miles.

4. When was Mein Kampf published?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1932.

5. What term is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy?
(a) Nonreality.
(b) Hyper-reality.
(c) Superreality.
(d) Pseudo-event.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Al Capone born?

2. What is the official log of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress?

3. When did Mussolini become the Prime Minister of Italy?

4. What does Boorstin refer to propaganda as, in Chapter 1- Section IV?

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

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