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

2. When was the Ford Model T introduced?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1900.

3. What term does Boorstin assert has been relegated to the experiences of young children or naïve adults?
(a) Fairy tales.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Celebrity.
(d) Hero.

4. When did Mussolini become the Prime Minister of Italy?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1911.

5. What does Boorstin assert inevitably give a false representation of a country because they have been specially selected and taken from context?
(a) Tour guides.
(b) Tourist attractions.
(c) Restaurants.
(d) The media.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin call "a person who is known for his well-knownness"?

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

3. What first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police was best known for his involvement in the Lindbergh kidnapping case?

4. Who opened the first motel as a new form of accommodation in Memphis, Tennessee in 1952?

5. When was Adolf Hitler born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Boorstin compare travel of the past with the present, in Chapter 3 - Section I?

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

4. What aspects does Boorstin describe of pseudo-events in Chapter 1?

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

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

7. What does Boorstin write all tourist attractions share, in Chapter 3 - Section IV? What effect does this have on travelers?

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

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

10. What example does Boorstin offer for "the leak" in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

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