WorksheetsFine Arts Packet 3
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The song, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" was written for the Broadway musical ___________________.
Ragtime
Americana
Oklahoma
The King and I
"Migrant Mother" was a photograph by _______________________ for the Farm Security Administration in 1936.
Ansel Adams
Matthew Brady
Dorothea Lange
Billy Wilder
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?
Los Angeles and Boston
New York City and Hollywood
New York City and Boston
Chicago and Hollywood
Aside from _______________________, the Great Depression was the gravest crisis in American history.
World War I
World War II
The Civil War
The Vietnam War
Perhaps no writer better reflected this new sense of social commitment than ______________________________. He published A Farewell to Arms in 1929.
Orson Welles
Ernest Hemmingway
Ray Bradbury
John Donne
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?
1930-1935
1935-1939
1931-1933
1930-1939
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 ______________________
Group Theater
Federal Theater
Theater Union
Mercury Theater
Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath in 1939 , the "protest" novel of the 1930's, which was an epic tribute to the Okies?
Orson Welles
Nathanael West
John Dos Passo
John Steinbeck
Which works of fiction in 1932, 1934, 1935, explored the claustrophobic world of lower-middle-class Irish Catholics?
Native Sons Trilogy
Studs Lonigan Trilogy
John Dos Passo's trilogy USA
Grapes of Wrath Trilogy
Which board game was introduced in 1935?
Life
Candy Land
Monopoly
Checkers
The most memorable films of the decade were
musicals
screwball comedies
romances
musicals, screwball comedies, and romances
Which song was used as a political jingle for Roosevelt's 1932 presidential campaign?
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Happy Days Are Here Again
Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Who was an ex-convict who gained fame for the songs he wrote about African American life during the Great Depression?
John Lomax
Alan Lomax
Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter)
Woody Guthrie
The title of one of the decade's best-selling self-help pbooks was:
It Happened One Night
You Can't Take It with You
Meet John Doe
Life Begins at Forty
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?
The Grapes of Wrath
Wizard of Oz
Gone with the Wind
Oklahoma
The transition from rage to reconciliation was reflected symbolically in one of the decade's most cherished movies in 1939. What was it?
Gone with the WInd
The Wizard of Oz
Citizen Kane
War of the Worlds
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?
The King and I
Oklahoma
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Ragtime
In the 1930's, the national pastime of baseball changed in all of the following ways except:
players' salaries were cut
minor leagues were eliminated
night games were eliminated
Major League rosters were cut
By mid-decade, the Benny Goodman Orchestra had ushered in the ______________era.
swing
jazz
classical
bluegrass
Which 1939 movie taught that people do not need a wizard and his miracles; all they need to do is look inside themselves?
Gone with the Wind
The Grapes of Wrath
The Wizard of Oz
Oklahoma!
