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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boorstin claim increased the ease of creation and transmission of several different types of media?
(a) World Wide Web.
(b) The printing press.
(c) Graphic Revolution.
(d) Media Revolution.

2. Established by Boorstin, what is the third way pseudo-events can overshadow real or spontaneous events?
(a) They can be repeated.
(b) They are less dramatic.
(c) They are easier to distribute.
(d) They are more dramatic.

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

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

5. What name referred to Stalin's campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery?
(a) The Great Cleansing.
(b) The Great Purge.
(c) The Great Famine.
(d) The Grand Inquisition.

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

7. What was the name of the plane that Charles Lindbergh made his flight across the Atlantic in?
(a) The Lucky Lindy.
(b) The Spirit of America.
(c) The Lindbergh Jewel.
(d) The Spirit of St. Louis.

8. What refers to a person or thing that draws, allures, or entices?
(a) Fortress.
(b) Cultivation.
(c) Seductress.
(d) Attraction.

9. When did Charles Lindbergh make his famous flight across the Atlantic?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1927.

10. 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) Fort Williams Field, NC.
(d) Roosevelt Field, NY.

11. When did Thomas Cook conduct his first train tour?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1852.

12. How much were tickets on Thomas Cook's first train tour?
(a) Ten shillings.
(b) Five shillings.
(c) One pence.
(d) One shilling.

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

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

15. Who wrote Crystallizing Public Opinion?
(a) Edward A. Smith.
(b) Edward L. Bernays.
(c) Edward R. Burns.
(d) Edward L. Bynay.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Karl Baedeker observed to drop a pea on every twentieth step of the staircase to the roof, so he could report the number of steps accurately?

2. Boorstin asserts, in Chapter 2 - Section I, that Americans have fooled themselves about how much _____ is contained in the world and in individuals.

3. In what year did Thomas Cook's train tours first go to Scotland?

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

5. When did the development of hotels with leisure complexes become a popular development in the United States?

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