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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. Where was Al Capone born?
(a) Booklyn, NY.
(b) Queens, NY.
(c) Naperville, IL.
(d) Chicago, IL.

2. How many cars were registered in the United States in 1900?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 8,000.

3. What was the departure site for Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean ?
(a) Lockton Field, NY.
(b) Anderson Field, MA.
(c) Roosevelt Field, NY.
(d) Fort Williams Field, NC.

4. When was Mein Kampf published?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1900.

5. Who did Charles Lindbergh marry?
(a) Anne Morrow.
(b) Elizabeth Winchester.
(c) Sarah Morrow.
(d) Mary Anne Doherty.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Karl Baedeker start his publishing company?

2. What name referred to Stalin's campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery?

3. What is the official log of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress?

4. Where did Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic end?

5. What does Boorstin describe as a kind of pseudo-event, especially in the sense that they were "more vivid and more impressive than the spontaneous original"?

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