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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 refers to a person or thing that draws, allures, or entices?

2. How much were tickets on Thomas Cook's first train tour?

3. Pseudo-events tend to do what to the human experience, according to Boorstin?

4. Pseudo-events, according to Boorstin, create distortion through what?

5. In what year did popular publications print articles showing the car was cheaper to operate than the horse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the effect of the extravagant expectations held by Americans, according to Boorstin?

2. What aspect of the pseudo-event does Boorstin explore in Chapter 1 - Section IV?

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

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

5. What did the advent of tourism do for the American traveler, according to Boorstin?

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

7. How does Boorstin describe the power of celebrity to obscure and destroy the heroic?

8. What has psychological analysis done to the old heroic form, according to Boorstin?

9. What does Boorstin write of "local atmosphere" in tourist destinations?

10. How does Boorstin compare travel of the past with the present, in Chapter 3 - Section I?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the effect and influence of the development and publication of digests, such as "Reader's Digest." What does Boorstin conclude the effect was on literature?

Essay Topic 2

Boorstin posits that there are two main "extravagant expectations" that Americans hold. What are these and what are examples of each?

Essay Topic 3

Who was Karl Baedeker? What advances did he make in the tourism industry? What were the effects?

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