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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. In what year did popular publications print articles showing the car was cheaper to operate than the horse?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1925.

2. What was the name of the plane that Charles Lindbergh made his flight across the Atlantic in?
(a) The Spirit of St. Louis.
(b) The Lindbergh Jewel.
(c) The Lucky Lindy.
(d) The Spirit of America.

3. Who does Boorstin claim was a major figure of presidential creation of pseudo-events, including his solidification of the presidential press conference and his fireside chats?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(d) Hubert Humphrey.

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

5. Boorstin relates pre-packaged travel to what activity, in Chapter 3 - Section I?
(a) Cooking dinner.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Reading a book.
(d) Watching a movie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic end?

2. What is the title of Chapter 3?

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

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

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What subject does Boorstin address in Chapter 1 - Section V? How have pseudo-events distorted image?

2. What does Boorstin assert of travelers' dissociation since the advent of tourism?

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

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

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

6. What does Boorstin write of the American concept of "greatness," in Chapter 2 - Section I?

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

8. How does Boorstin describe pseudo-events in the political arena, in Chapter 1 - Section III? What examples does he offer?

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

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

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