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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position?
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Stereotype.
(d) Pseudo-event.

2. What does Boorstin assert has been provided in exotic locations, in Chapter 3 - Section IV?
(a) Exotic restaurants.
(b) Tour guides.
(c) Money exchange stations.
(d) Local atmosphere.

3. When was Charles Lindbergh born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1902.

4. Boorstin relates pre-packaged travel to what activity, in Chapter 3 - Section I?
(a) Watching a movie.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Cooking dinner.
(d) Reading a book.

5. What is the official log of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress?
(a) Congressional Record.
(b) House Record.
(c) Record of the Congressional Committee.
(d) Presidential Congressional Record.

6. What, according to the author, is always in the present and requires a constant stream of publicity and pseudo-events to maintain its status?
(a) Public favor.
(b) Celebrity.
(c) Heroism.
(d) Political favor.

7. The argument is made, in Chapter 3 - Section IV, that the objects in museums were ____ from the homes of the wealthy and famous to be available for all to view.
(a) Liberated.
(b) Hijacked.
(c) Stolen.
(d) Smuggled.

8. What does Boorstin call "a person who is known for his well-knownness"?
(a) Politician.
(b) Celebrity.
(c) Debutante.
(d) Heiress.

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

10. What word refers to that which is important, highly significant, or consequential?
(a) Fame.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Greatness.

11. In what year did Karl Baedeker start his publishing company?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1800.

12. When was Benito Mussolini born?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1911.

13. What term refers to that which is of foreign origin or character, not native, introduced from abroad, but not fully naturalized or acclimatized?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Other.
(c) Exotic.
(d) Indiginous.

14. Where did Conrad Hilton purchase his first hotel?
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) New York.
(d) Mexico.

15. When was Al Capone indicted for income tax evasion and various violations of the Volstead Act?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Charles Lindbergh sign a contract for his story of the famous monoplane flight?

2. What is the third characteristic of the pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?

3. What is the first of the "extravagant expectations" held by Americans, according to Boorstin?

4. What first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police was best known for his involvement in the Lindbergh kidnapping case?

5. When was Mein Kampf published?

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