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

2. Pseudo-events, according to Boorstin, create distortion through what?
(a) Complication.
(b) Falsehood.
(c) Propaganda.
(d) Ambiguity.

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

4. What term refers to the process of making something commercial?
(a) Propone.
(b) Catalyze.
(c) Commoditize.
(d) Advertise.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 2 - Section 1, that heroes can now be what?

2. How many cars were registered in the United States in 1900?

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

4. Where was Karl Baedeker born?

5. What term means to make uniform or similar, as in composition or function?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Boorstin compare travel of the past with the present, in Chapter 3 - Section I?

3. Who defined the term "stereotype," in Chapter 1 - Section V? How does Boorstin relate this definition?

4. How did Conrad Hilton establish his hotel empire? Where was his first hotel built?

5. How does Boorstin define "celebrity"?

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

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

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

9. What did the advent of tourism do for the American traveler, according to Boorstin?

10. What does Boorstin write of "local atmosphere" in tourist destinations?

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