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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term means to make uniform or similar, as in composition or function?
(a) Uniformize.
(b) Homogenize.
(c) Amass.
(d) Conform.

3. What refers to something that is changed or modified to suit new conditions or needs?
(a) Adaptation.
(b) Conductation.
(c) Inductation.
(d) Redaptation.

4. When was Reader's Digest founded?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1949.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did P.T. Barnum purchase Scudder's American Museum?

2. How much were tickets on Thomas Cook's first train tour?

3. Boorstin writes that the image must exist in a kind of liminal state "between expectation and" what?

4. Boorstin states, in Chapter 3 - Section I, that in today's travel there is very little what?

5. In Chapter 5, Boorstin asserts that we have made a shift from moral value to what value?

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