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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. What was the familiar hallmark of Baedeker guides?
(a) Green binding.
(b) Blue binding.
(c) Yellow binding.
(d) Red binding.

2. What is the first characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is simplified.
(b) It is believable.
(c) It is synthetic.
(d) It is ambiguous.

3. Karl Baedeker followed the model of English guide books instituted by whom?
(a) John Murray.
(b) Thomas Cook.
(c) Michael Miller.
(d) James Anderson.

4. 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.
(a) Hijacked.
(b) Stolen.
(c) Liberated.
(d) Smuggled.

5. What is the fourth characteristic of the image, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is believable.
(b) It is vivid.
(c) It is synthetic.
(d) It is ambiguous.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Boorstin assert inevitably give a false representation of a country because they have been specially selected and taken from context?

3. What people does Boorstin assert were able to express, ritualize, and create heroes, in Chapter 2 - Section II?

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

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

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