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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Boorstin asserts that the influx of pseudo-events has caused the confusion of participant and what roles?
(a) Creator.
(b) Viewer.
(c) Instigator.
(d) Catalyst.

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

4. What form of travel, initiated by Thomas Cook, had the traveler go independently, while Cook's agency charged for travel, food, and accommodation for a fixed period over any chosen route?
(a) Inclusive independent travel.
(b) Independent travel.
(c) Exclusive independent travel.
(d) Interactive independent travel.

5. Who wrote Mein Kampf?
(a) Benito Mussolini.
(b) Adolph Hitler.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) Friedrich Engels.

6. In Chapter 1 - Section IV, Boorstin discusses the formation of what as a communication device for government officials?
(a) The FBI.
(b) The mobile phone.
(c) The leak.
(d) The wire tap.

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

8. What word refers to that which is coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency, without effort or premeditation, natural and unconstrained?
(a) Combustive.
(b) Spontaneous.
(c) Structured.
(d) Instantaneous.

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

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

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

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

13. Boorstin opens Chapter 3 - Section VI talking about the changes in our understanding of time and what?
(a) Travel.
(b) Space.
(c) Commerce.
(d) Family.

14. What title did Mussolini go by after 3 years in office as Prime Minister?
(a) Mein Furor.
(b) Il Deuce.
(c) Il Furor.
(d) Il Capitain.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What refers to a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative or meta-narrative?

4. Boorstin writes that critical history and critical biography have reduced heroes to mere pawns of what?

5. Boorstin writes that the telling of news has changed from reporting what was seen to what?

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