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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 - Section IV and V.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Thomas Cook's train tours first go to Scotland?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1846.

2. When did the development of hotels with leisure complexes become a popular development in the United States?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1960s.

3. What was one of Charles Lindbergh's nicknames?
(a) The Flyer.
(b) Lucky Lindy.
(c) Wings.
(d) Lucky Chuck.

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

5. Boorstin writes that the telling of news has changed from reporting what was seen to what?
(a) Participating in what is seen.
(b) Actively creating what is seen.
(c) Commenting on what is seen.
(d) Reacting to what is seen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin write essentially means that people have accepted and bought into the image that we are trying to uphold?

2. Who founded Reader's Digest?

3. What term refers to the process of making something commercial?

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

5. What word means to represent concretely, to externalize?

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