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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. When did Mussolini become the Prime Minister of Italy?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1922.
2. Boorstin opens Chapter 3 - Section VI talking about the changes in our understanding of time and what?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Travel.
(c) Family.
(d) Space.
3. Where was Karl Baedeker born?
(a) Russia.
(b) Poland.
(c) Essen.
(d) Switzerland.
4. When did Thomas Cook conduct his first train tour?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1841.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1865.
5. Boorstin asserts that the influx of pseudo-events has caused the confusion of participant and what roles?
(a) Instigator.
(b) Catalyst.
(c) Viewer.
(d) Creator.
Short Answer 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?
2. What is the first aspect of a pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?
3. What does Boorstin call "a person who is known for his well-knownness"?
4. Where did Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic end?
5. What is the fourth quality of the pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Boorstin write of the news industry in Chapter 1 - Section I?
2. What does Boorstin write of the changing nature of travel in Chapter 3?
3. What aspect of the pseudo-event does Boorstin explore in Chapter 1 - Section IV?
4. How was the second story a pseudo-event in Boorstin's example of "the leak" in Chapter 1 - Section IV?
5. How did Conrad Hilton establish his hotel empire? Where was his first hotel built?
6. What does Boorstin write of the American concept of "greatness," in Chapter 2 - Section I?
7. How did the "Crime of the Century" affect Lindbergh's celebrity?
8. What extravagant expectations does Boorstin assert consumes the American psyche?
9. Who was Thomas Cook? What industry did he expand?
10. Who was Charles Lindbergh? What does Boorstin assert of him?
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