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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What is the third characteristic of the pseudo-event, according to Boorstin?
(a) It is ambiguous.
(b) Its purpose is to be recreated or reported.
(c) It is intended as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(d) It is intentionally created.

3. How many cars were registered in the United States in 1900?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 8,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 10,000.

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

5. When was the hotel coupon introduced to the touring industry in London?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1846.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Boorstin assert has been relegated to the experiences of young children or naïve adults?

2. With whom did Charles Lindbergh sign a contract for his story of the famous monoplane flight?

3. When was Charles Lindbergh born?

4. Who wrote Crystallizing Public Opinion?

5. What was the name of the plane that Charles Lindbergh made his flight across the Atlantic in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What argument is made regarding the objects on display in museums in Chapter 3 - Section IV?

2. What does Boorstin write can be mass-produced today, in Chapter 2 - Section I? Why?

3. Who was Thomas Cook? What industry did he expand?

4. How did the "Crime of the Century" affect Lindbergh's celebrity?

5. Who was Charles Lindbergh? What does Boorstin assert of him?

6. How was the second story a pseudo-event in Boorstin's example of "the leak" in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

7. What example does Boorstin offer for "the leak" in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

8. How does Boorstin define "celebrity"?

9. Who was Karl Baedeker? What did he pioneer?

10. What does Boorstin write of the impact of the Graphic Revolution, in Chapter 1 - Section II?

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