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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who did Charles Lindbergh marry?
(a) Sarah Morrow.
(b) Elizabeth Winchester.
(c) Anne Morrow.
(d) Mary Anne Doherty.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term refers to an activity that exists for the sole purpose of the media publicity and serves little to no other function in real life?

3. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in what year?

4. When was Adolf Hitler born?

5. In Chapter 1 - Section IV, Boorstin uses an example from the 1950s in which a story was released about an imminent attack by whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Boorstin define "celebrity"?

2. How did the "Crime of the Century" affect Lindbergh's celebrity?

3. Who was Charles Lindbergh? What does Boorstin assert of him?

4. What has eroded the old heroic form, according to Boorstin?

5. How does Boorstin describe tourism in America in Chapter 3 - Section V?

6. How did Charles Lindbergh succumb to celebrity, according to Boorstin?

7. How do the personalities of celebrities evolve, according to Boorstin?

8. What does Boorstin write all tourist attractions share, in Chapter 3 - Section IV? What effect does this have on travelers?

9. What comparison does Boorstin make between celebrities and heroes in Chapter 2 - Section IV?

10. How was the second story a pseudo-event in Boorstin's example of "the leak" in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

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