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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What term does Boorstin assert has been relegated to the experiences of young children or naïve adults?
2. According to Walter Lippman, a ____ is a way of giving rapid meaning to an external person or situation to help one orient to a world full of confusing and overwhelming experiences.
3. In what year did Karl Baedeker start his publishing company?
4. Boorstin asserts that the influx of pseudo-events has caused the confusion of participant and what roles?
5. What term refers to that which is of foreign origin or character, not native, introduced from abroad, but not fully naturalized or acclimatized?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Baedeker expand his publications? What was the "star system"?
2. Who was Charles Lindbergh? What does Boorstin assert of him?
3. What has eroded the old heroic form, according to Boorstin?
4. How does Boorstin define "celebrity"?
5. How does Boorstin describe tourism in America in Chapter 3 - Section V?
6. Who was Thomas Cook? What industry did he expand?
7. What is the effect of the extravagant expectations held by Americans, according to Boorstin?
8. What aspects does Boorstin describe of pseudo-events in Chapter 1?
9. How did Charles Lindbergh succumb to celebrity, according to Boorstin?
10. What does Boorstin write of the American concept of "greatness," in Chapter 2 - Section I?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Boorstin posits that there are two main "extravagant expectations" that Americans hold. What are these and what are examples of each?
Essay Topic 2
How does Boorstin define the term "celebrity"? What impact did this definition have on scholars and the American public? How and to whom does this definition apply today?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Charles Lindbergh as depicted in the text. How did Lindbergh's fame evolve from heroism to celebrity?
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