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Question #1

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

A. highlighting the most important tourist attractions to visit

B. reinforcing inequality and relations of power

C. undermining history

D. revealing the secrets of abandoned locations

Question #2

What are "vernacular landscapes"?

A. landscapes covered in manmade structures

B. landscapes that include mountain regions

C. landscapes of the ordinary and everyday

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. the most beautiful places in L.A.

C. landscapes of the rich and famous

D. why politics are unimportant in understanding a place

Question #4

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

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

B. that power works through ideology and political action

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

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

Question #5

According to Pulido, what is power?

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

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

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

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