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

2. In what year did Thomas Cook's train tours first go to Scotland?
(a) 1846.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1901.

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

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

5. How many people were aboard Thomas Cook's first train tour to Scotland?
(a) 250.
(b) 200.
(c) 350.
(d) 100.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a person or thing that draws, allures, or entices?

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

3. 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?

4. What term refers to that which is of foreign origin or character, not native, introduced from abroad, but not fully naturalized or acclimatized?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What has psychological analysis done to the old heroic form, according to Boorstin?

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

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