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

2. When was Adolf Hitler born?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1911.

3. Where was Al Capone born?
(a) Chicago, IL.
(b) Naperville, IL.
(c) Booklyn, NY.
(d) Queens, NY.

4. In his argument in Chapter 2 - Section IV, what does Boorstin suggest are created by the media?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Pseudo-events.
(c) Heroes.
(d) Celebrities.

5. Where was Karl Baedeker observed to drop a pea on every twentieth step of the staircase to the roof, so he could report the number of steps accurately?
(a) The Sistine Chapel.
(b) Milan Cathedral.
(c) The Louvre.
(d) St. Patrick Cathedral.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Charles Lindbergh sign a contract for his story of the famous monoplane flight?

2. 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?

3. What term does Boorstin assert has been relegated to the experiences of young children or naïve adults?

4. When was the hotel coupon introduced to the touring industry in London?

5. In what year did Karl Baedeker start his publishing company?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Boorstin write can be mass-produced today, in Chapter 2 - Section I? Why?

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

10. What does Boorstin write of the impact of the Graphic Revolution, in Chapter 1 - Section II?

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