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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. What people does Boorstin assert were able to express, ritualize, and create heroes, in Chapter 2 - Section II?
(a) Masses.
(b) Folks.
(c) Public.
(d) Population.

2. How many main "extravagant expectations" does Boorstin posit Americans hold?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

3. What was the name of the plane that Charles Lindbergh made his flight across the Atlantic in?
(a) The Spirit of St. Louis.
(b) The Spirit of America.
(c) The Lucky Lindy.
(d) The Lindbergh Jewel.

4. Whose best-known films are The Ten Commandments, Cleopatra, and The Greatest Show on Earth?
(a) Cecil B. DeMille.
(b) Adolf Zukor.
(c) Carl Laemmle.
(d) Mike Nichols.

5. When did Karl Baedeker die?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1805.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character of renown and public eminence?

2. With whom did Thomas Cook form a partnership and rename the travel agency as Thomas Cook and Son?

3. When did Thomas Cook conduct his first train tour?

4. How many cars were registered in the United States in 1900?

5. What does Boorstin assert inevitably give a false representation of a country because they have been specially selected and taken from context?

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