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Fine Arts Packet 3

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The song, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" was written for the Broadway musical ___________________.

a)

Ragtime

b)

Americana

c)

Oklahoma

d)

The King and I

2.

"Migrant Mother" was a photograph by _______________________ for the Farm Security Administration in 1936.

a)

Ansel Adams

b)

Matthew Brady

c)

Dorothea Lange

d)

Billy Wilder

3.

As a result of the massive intellectual and artistic emigration, by the end of the 1930s, which two cities had replaced Paris and Vienna as the home of Western culture?

a)

Los Angeles and Boston

b)

New York City and Hollywood

c)

New York City and Boston

d)

Chicago and Hollywood

4.

Aside from _______________________, the Great Depression was the gravest crisis in American history.

a)

World War I

b)

World War II

c)

The Civil War

d)

The Vietnam War

5.

Perhaps no writer better reflected this new sense of social commitment than ______________________________. He published A Farewell to Arms in 1929.

a)

Orson Welles

b)

Ernest Hemmingway

c)

Ray Bradbury

d)

John Donne

6.

During what years did the Roosevelt administration create and sustain the Federal Art Project, the Federal Music Project, the Federal Writers' Project, and the Federal Theater Project as part of the WPA?

a)

1930-1935

b)

1935-1939

c)

1931-1933

d)

1930-1939

7.

There were a number of theatrical companies that attempted to put on plays that were artistically challenging as well as socially relevant. No company was more successful in this effort than the ______________________

a)

Group Theater

b)

Federal Theater

c)

Theater Union

d)

Mercury Theater

8.

Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath in 1939 , the "protest" novel of the 1930's, which was an epic tribute to the Okies?

a)

Orson Welles

b)

Nathanael West

c)

John Dos Passo

d)

John Steinbeck

9.

Which works of fiction in 1932, 1934, 1935, explored the claustrophobic world of lower-middle-class Irish Catholics?

a)

Native Sons Trilogy

b)

Studs Lonigan Trilogy

c)

John Dos Passo's trilogy USA

d)

Grapes of Wrath Trilogy

10.

Which board game was introduced in 1935?

a)

Life

b)

Candy Land

c)

Monopoly

d)

Checkers

11.

The most memorable films of the decade were

a)

musicals

b)

screwball comedies

c)

romances

d)

musicals, screwball comedies, and romances

12.

Which song was used as a political jingle for Roosevelt's 1932 presidential campaign?

a)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

b)

Happy Days Are Here Again

c)

Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries

d)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

13.

Who was an ex-convict who gained fame for the songs he wrote about African American life during the Great Depression?

a)

John Lomax

b)

Alan Lomax

c)

Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter)

d)

Woody Guthrie

14.

The title of one of the decade's best-selling self-help pbooks was:

a)

It Happened One Night

b)

You Can't Take It with You

c)

Meet John Doe

d)

Life Begins at Forty

15.

What was the decade's most famous novel and the movie set box-office records both in the 1930's and for the next half century?

a)

The Grapes of Wrath

b)

Wizard of Oz

c)

Gone with the Wind

d)

Oklahoma

16.

The transition from rage to reconciliation was reflected symbolically in one of the decade's most cherished movies in 1939. What was it?

a)

Gone with the WInd

b)

The Wizard of Oz

c)

Citizen Kane

d)

War of the Worlds

17.

In 1943, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein opened a new musical on Broadway. Unlike Steinbeck's Dust Bowl, this story was of a bountiful land where the corn was as high "as an elephant's eye." What was this musical?

a)

The King and I

b)

Oklahoma

c)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

d)

Ragtime

18.

In the 1930's, the national pastime of baseball changed in all of the following ways except:

a)

players' salaries were cut

b)

minor leagues were eliminated

c)

night games were eliminated

d)

Major League rosters were cut

19.

By mid-decade, the Benny Goodman Orchestra had ushered in the ______________era.

a)

swing

b)

jazz

c)

classical

d)

bluegrass

20.

Which 1939 movie taught that people do not need a wizard and his miracles; all they need to do is look inside themselves?

a)

Gone with the Wind

b)

The Grapes of Wrath

c)

The Wizard of Oz

d)

Oklahoma!