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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) Money exchange stations.
(b) Tour guides.
(c) Exotic restaurants.
(d) Local atmosphere.

2. In Chapter 1 - Section II, Boorstin discusses the temptation of newsmen to make images that were what?
(a) Believable.
(b) Aligned politically.
(c) Probable.
(d) Newsworthy.

3. What refers to a person or thing that draws, allures, or entices?
(a) Fortress.
(b) Attraction.
(c) Seductress.
(d) Cultivation.

4. How many people did Thomas Cook claim to have arranged to attend the Great Exhibition?
(a) 50,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 200,000.

5. Who did Charles Lindbergh marry?
(a) Sarah Morrow.
(b) Elizabeth Winchester.
(c) Anne Morrow.
(d) Mary Anne Doherty.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Thomas Cook form a partnership and rename the travel agency as Thomas Cook and Son?

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

3. What was the familiar hallmark of Baedeker guides?

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

5. Boorstin states, in Chapter 3 - Section I, that in today's travel there is very little what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What aspect of the pseudo-event does Boorstin explore in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Boorstin write of the news industry in Chapter 1 - Section I?

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

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

9. What argument is made regarding the objects on display in museums in Chapter 3 - Section IV?

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

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