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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. Where did Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic end?
(a) Paris International Airport.
(b) Le Bourget Field, Paris.
(c) London International Airport.
(d) McMorris Field, UK.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Thomas Cook's circular notes better known as?

2. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 1 - Section V, that the advances made in American society have served to "blur the edges of" what?

3. What was one of Charles Lindbergh's nicknames?

4. Boorstin posits that in addition to destroying old heroes ____ has made it difficult to create and recognize new heroes.

5. Pseudo-events, according to Boorstin, create distortion through what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What extravagant expectations does Boorstin assert consumes the American psyche?

3. How does Boorstin describe the power of celebrity to obscure and destroy the heroic?

4. What does Boorstin relate of technology and the sciences in Chapter 2 - Section II?

5. What aspects does Boorstin describe of pseudo-events in Chapter 1?

6. Who was Thomas Cook? What industry did he expand?

7. How does Boorstin distinguish pseudo-events from propaganda?

8. What does Boorstin write of the news industry in Chapter 1 - Section I?

9. How did Baedeker expand his publications? What was the "star system"?

10. What does Boorstin write of the changing nature of travel in Chapter 3?

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