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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Benito Mussolini born?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1911.

2. What term refers to widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character of renown and public eminence?
(a) Prowess.
(b) Celebrity.
(c) Fame.
(d) Greatness.

3. When was Thomas Cook born?
(a) 1825.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1808.

4. What political party did Benito Mussolini lead?
(a) The Italian Nationalist Party.
(b) The Nazi Party.
(c) National Fascist Party.
(d) The Whig Party.

5. Who did Charles Lindbergh marry?
(a) Anne Morrow.
(b) Sarah Morrow.
(c) Mary Anne Doherty.
(d) Elizabeth Winchester.

Short Answer Questions

1. Boorstin opens Chapter 3 - Section VI talking about the changes in our understanding of time and what?

2. Boorstin writes that critical history and critical biography have reduced heroes to mere pawns of what?

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

4. When did Karl Baedeker institute a star system in his travel guides?

5. What term is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy?

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