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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 - Section I-III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Charles Lindbergh sign a contract for his story of the famous monoplane flight?
(a) USA Today.
(b) Chicago Tribune.
(c) New York Times.
(d) CBS.

2. When was Mein Kampf published?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1945.

3. What refers to a tendency in contemporary culture characterized by the rejection of objective truth and global cultural narrative or meta-narrative?
(a) Post-modernism.
(b) Pseudo-event.
(c) Hyper-reality.
(d) Nonreality.

4. Where was Al Capone born?
(a) Queens, NY.
(b) Booklyn, NY.
(c) Chicago, IL.
(d) Naperville, IL.

5. With whom did Thomas Cook form a partnership and rename the travel agency as Thomas Cook and Son?
(a) Andrew Michael Cook.
(b) Thomas Cook, Jr.
(c) John A. Mason Cook.
(d) Alexander Mason Cook.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means to represent concretely, to externalize?

2. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in what year?

3. What term refers to that which is of foreign origin or character, not native, introduced from abroad, but not fully naturalized or acclimatized?

4. What is the first of the "extravagant expectations" held by Americans, according to Boorstin?

5. Who wrote Crystallizing Public Opinion?

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