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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. Boorstin states, in Chapter 3 - Section I, that in today's travel there is very little what?
(a) Interaction.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Time.
(d) Risk.

2. What does Boorstin assert has been provided in exotic locations, in Chapter 3 - Section IV?
(a) Money exchange stations.
(b) Local atmosphere.
(c) Tour guides.
(d) Exotic restaurants.

3. Boorstin suggests, in Chapter 2 - Section 1, that heroes can now be what?
(a) Destroyed.
(b) Emulated.
(c) Copied.
(d) Mass-produced.

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

5. When did Al Capone die?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the author, is always in the present and requires a constant stream of publicity and pseudo-events to maintain its status?

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

3. Where was Karl Baedeker born?

4. What name referred to Stalin's campaign to purge the Communist Party of people accused of sabotage, terrorism, or treachery?

5. What book of Walter Lippman's does Boorstin cite, in Chapter 1 - Section V?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Boorstin distinguish pseudo-events from propaganda?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the effect of the extravagant expectations held by Americans, according to Boorstin?

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

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