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

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

3. What is the second quality of the pseudo-event described by Boorstin?
(a) It is ambiguous.
(b) It is intentionally created.
(c) Its purpose is to be recreated or reported.
(d) It is intended as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

4. When was the Ford Model T introduced?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1908.

5. What were Thomas Cook's circular notes better known as?
(a) Traveler's Cheques.
(b) Travel coupons.
(c) Credit slips.
(d) Credit cards.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 1 - Section V, that the advances made in American society have served to "blur the edges of" what?

2. Boorstin suggests that the graphic revolution and what else are mostly responsible for the abridgment and the mass production of art?

3. What refers to a single complete page, front and back, in a finished book?

4. When was Benito Mussolini born?

5. Established by Boorstin, what is the third way pseudo-events can overshadow real or spontaneous events?

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