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Question #1

According to Pulido, guidebooks play a critical role in what?

A. revealing the secrets of abandoned locations

B. highlighting the most important tourist attractions to visit

C. reinforcing inequality and relations of power

D. undermining history

Question #2

What are "vernacular landscapes"?

A. landscapes covered in manmade structures

B. landscapes of the ordinary and everyday

C. landscapes that include mountain regions

D. landscapes on the South side of Los Angeles

Question #3

What is one key element the authors plan to examine in A People's Guide to Los Angeles?

A. how power works

B. why politics are unimportant in understanding a place

C. landscapes of the rich and famous

D. the most beautiful places in L.A.

Question #4

In the United States, what do our dominant cultural institutions teach us?

A. that Los Angeles is the best city in the world

B. that inequality is the result of individual failures rather than larger systemic forces

C. that power works through ideology and political action

D. that the only way to understand the present is through history

Question #5

According to Pulido, what is power?

A. our ability to form meaningful relationships with those in a higher social class

B. our ability to defy laws and do whatever we want

C. our ability to conrol the conditions of our lives, to impose our will on others, and to create change

D. our abiilty to physically overcome other people through brute force