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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Mussolini become the Prime Minister of Italy?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1911.

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

4. What does Boorstin refer to pseudo-events as, in Chapter 1 - Section IV?
(a) Ambiguous falsehoods.
(b) Ambiguous truths.
(c) Stereotypes.
(d) Appealing falsehoods.

5. Boorstin posits that in addition to destroying old heroes ____ has made it difficult to create and recognize new heroes.
(a) News media.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Technology.
(d) The printing press.

6. What political party did Benito Mussolini lead?
(a) The Italian Nationalist Party.
(b) The Nazi Party.
(c) National Fascist Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

7. In what year was Charles Lindbergh's infant son kidnapped and murdered in the "Crime of the Century"?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1932.

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

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

10. What refers to a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative or meta-narrative?
(a) Pseudo-event.
(b) Hyper-reality.
(c) Nonreality.
(d) Post-modernism.

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

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

13. Boorstin states, in Chapter 3 - Section I, that in today's travel there is very little what?
(a) Time.
(b) Interaction.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Risk.

14. In what year did urban tourism in America become a profitable industry, as the number of tour agencies, railroad passenger departments, guidebook publishers, and travel writers grew at a fast pace?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1915.

15. 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) Stereotype.
(c) Pseudo-event.
(d) Newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word refers to that which is coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency, without effort or premeditation, natural and unconstrained?

2. In Chapter 1 - Section II, Boorstin discusses the temptation of newsmen to make images that were what?

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

4. What, according to the author, is always in the present and requires a constant stream of publicity and pseudo-events to maintain its status?

5. Boorstin opens Chapter 3 - Section VI talking about the changes in our understanding of time and what?

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