American Culture Quiz

The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense located in

• a) Washington, D.C.

• b) Virginia

• c) South Dakota

• d) California.

The US Constitution grants the press equal status with the other branches of government.

• true

• false

In ____there was a rapid spread of paid cable television.

• a) 1940s.

• b) 1950s.

• c) 1960s.

• a) 1980s.

On one of the peaks the Mount Rushmore you can see the carved heads of four American Presidents: George Washington, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and ....

What are the three major news magazines?

• A. Business Week
  

• B. Time
  

• C. Newsweek
  

• D. Reader's Digest
  

• E. US News & World Report

The first American studios were located in the ____________area.

• a) Washington;

• b) New Jersey;

• c) New York City:

• d) Miami.

A ____ is a highly personalized magazine of fairly small circulation, sometimes with contents that are meant to shock.

The ____ was born on the Mississippi River Delta in the early 1900s.

• rap

• jazz

• rock'n'roll

• blues

_____is considered the first major American artist.

• Andy Warhol

• John Singleton Copley

• Jackson Pollock

• Roy Lichtenstein

The colonial period in American art is marked by the development of ____as the dominant genre.

• portrait painting

• seascape

• landscape

• still life