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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 - Section V-XI.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What major movie studio did Carl Laemmle originate?
(a) MGM.
(b) General Film Company.
(c) Universal Studios.
(d) Paramount Pictures.

3. What does Boorstin claim increased the ease of creation and transmission of several different types of media?
(a) The printing press.
(b) Graphic Revolution.
(c) Media Revolution.
(d) World Wide Web.

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

5. In Chapter 1 - Section V, Boorstin discusses a change in the way people relate to truth and to what?
(a) Media.
(b) Image.
(c) Ambiguity.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to something that is changed or modified to suit new conditions or needs?

2. Karl Baedeker followed the model of English guide books instituted by whom?

3. What refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theater District, New York?

4. Boorstin writes that critical history and critical biography have reduced heroes to mere pawns of what?

5. What were Thomas Cook's circular notes better known as?

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