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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 political party did Benito Mussolini lead?
(a) The Italian Nationalist Party.
(b) The Whig Party.
(c) National Fascist Party.
(d) The Nazi Party.

2. What term does Boorstin assert has been relegated to the experiences of young children or naïve adults?
(a) Fairy tales.
(b) Hero.
(c) Celebrity.
(d) Politicians.

3. What term refers to that which is not participating readily or actively?
(a) Interactive.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Objective.
(d) Passive.

4. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in what year?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1945.

5. Where did Conrad Hilton purchase his first hotel?
(a) New York.
(b) Canada.
(c) Mexico.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Al Capone indicted for income tax evasion and various violations of the Volstead Act?

2. What does Boorstin claim increased the ease of creation and transmission of several different types of media?

3. When did Joseph Stalin assume the role of head of state of Russia?

4. What word refers to that which is coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency, without effort or premeditation, natural and unconstrained?

5. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 1 - Section V, that the advances made in American society have served to "blur the edges of" what?

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