The major development in popular music during the 1930s, ...

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Question 1

The Boulderlater the HooverDam was built to control what river?
 
  A) Colorado
  B) Columbia
  C) Missouri
  D) Ohio

Question 2

During the first hundred days of Roosevelt's first term:
 
  A) the country waited anxiously to see what would happen when Congress met in the fall.
  B) Roosevelt pushed an extraordinary wave of reform legislation through Congress.
  C) the economy suddenly improved sharply as Americans showed their confidence in FDR.
  D) the American Liberty League strongly supported FDR's actions.

Question 3

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) sympathetically portrayed the plight of:
 
  A) Oklahoma Dust Bowl migrants.
  B) unemployed Detroit factory workers.
  C) new immigrants in New York City.
  D) poor black farmers in Georgia.

Question 4

The major development in popular music during the 1930s, exemplified by Benny Goodman, was:
 
  A) rock and roll.
  B) cool jazz.
  C) folk music.
  D) swing.

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Answer 1

Answer: A

Answer 2

Answer: B

Answer 3

Answer: A

Answer 4

Answer: D