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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position?
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Pseudo-event.
(d) Propaganda.

2. What was the distance of Charles Lindbergh's historic monoplane flight across the Atlantic?
(a) 3,000 miles.
(b) 4,000 miles.
(c) 3,600 miles.
(d) 2,500 miles.

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

4. Pseudo-events tend to do what to the human experience, according to Boorstin?
(a) Objectify it.
(b) Narrow it.
(c) Embellish it.
(d) Diminish it.

5. How many people did Thomas Cook claim to have arranged to attend the Great Exhibition?
(a) 150,000.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 200,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In his argument in Chapter 2 - Section IV, what does Boorstin suggest are created by the media?

3. When was Adolf Hitler born?

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

5. How many cars were registered in the United States in 1900?

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