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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 - Section I-IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who opened the first motel as a new form of accommodation in Memphis, Tennessee in 1952?
(a) James Anderson.
(b) William Berkshire.
(c) Conrad Hilton.
(d) Kemmons Wilson.

3. In Chapter 1 - Section V, Boorstin discusses a change in the way people relate to truth and to what?
(a) Ambiguity.
(b) Media.
(c) Religion.
(d) Image.

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

5. In what year did urban tourism in America become a profitable industry, as the number of tour agencies, railroad passenger departments, guidebook publishers, and travel writers grew at a fast pace?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1915.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Mein Kampf?

2. What does Boorstin refer to propaganda as, in Chapter 1- Section IV?

3. Who developed an early printing press in 1436?

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

5. When did Joseph Stalin assume the role of head of state of Russia?

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