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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. Who wrote Mein Kampf?
(a) Adolph Hitler.
(b) Friedrich Engels.
(c) Benito Mussolini.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

2. What book of Walter Lippman's does Boorstin cite, in Chapter 1 - Section V?
(a) Mein Kampf.
(b) The Origins of Family.
(c) Public Opinion.
(d) Sociological Justices.

3. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 2 - Section 1, that heroes can now be what?
(a) Mass-produced.
(b) Copied.
(c) Emulated.
(d) Destroyed.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the first of the "extravagant expectations" held by Americans, according to Boorstin?

3. When was Mein Kampf published?

4. What refers to a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative or meta-narrative?

5. When was Thomas Cook born?

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