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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 - Section I-III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Boorstin opens Chapter 3 - Section VI talking about the changes in our understanding of time and what?
(a) Space.
(b) Travel.
(c) Family.
(d) Commerce.

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

3. What title did Mussolini go by after 3 years in office as Prime Minister?
(a) Il Furor.
(b) Il Capitain.
(c) Il Deuce.
(d) Mein Furor.

4. Boorstin asserts, in Chapter 2 - Section I, that Americans have fooled themselves about how much _____ is contained in the world and in individuals.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Fame.
(c) Greatness.
(d) Wealthy.

5. Boorstin writes that critical history and critical biography have reduced heroes to mere pawns of what?
(a) Chess.
(b) The public.
(c) Social forces.
(d) The media.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boorstin writes that the image must exist in a kind of liminal state "between expectation and" what?

2. 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?

3. When did P.T. Barnum purchase Scudder's American Museum?

4. Boorstin writes in Chapter 5 that "God himself becomes not a power but" what?

5. The argument is made, in Chapter 3 - Section IV, that the objects in museums were ____ from the homes of the wealthy and famous to be available for all to view.

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