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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did popular publications print articles showing the car was cheaper to operate than the horse?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1825.

2. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 1 - Section V, that the advances made in American society have served to "blur the edges of" what?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Commercialism.
(c) Truth.
(d) Reality.

3. What is the second of the "extravagant expectations" held by Americans, according to Boorstin?
(a) Time is of the essence.
(b) There is always more that the world can provide.
(c) We have unlimited power to fashion the world to our desires.
(d) Money can buy anything.

4. When was Benito Mussolini born?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1883.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the familiar hallmark of Baedeker guides?

2. What was one of Charles Lindbergh's nicknames?

3. What is the title of Chapter 3?

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

5. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in what year?

(see the answer key)

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