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Grade 8 Modern Era
Who was the schoolteacher who helped educate the public about the poor living conditions of the mentally ill?
  1. Dorthea Dix
  2. Samuel Gridley Howe
  3. George Catlin
  4. Thomas Gallaudet
Grade 8 Modern Era
A mixture of jazz and rock developed in the 1960s that was called what?
  1. hard bop
  2. post-bop
  3. jazz fusion
  4. soul jazz
Grade 8 Modern Era
What work by George Gershwin helped to bring jazz into the mainstream?
  1. Blue Monday
  2. Mood Indigo
  3. Blue in Green
  4. Rhapsody in Blue
Grade 8 Modern Era
Who was the Republican presidential candidate for the 1952 election?
  1. Truman
  2. Nixon
  3. MacArthur
  4. Eisenhower
Grade 8 Modern Era
What was the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act?
  1. to prohibit rebates and pools
  2. to forbid the use of strikes by labor unions
  3. to regulate businesses that crossed state lines
  4. to prevent big businesses from limiting competition
Grade 8 Modern Era
Jazz is traditionally thought to have originated in which city?
  1. New Orleans
  2. Baton Rouge
  3. Memphis
  4. Nashville
Grade 8 Modern Era
Why are names still being added to the Vietnam Wall?
  1. There were mistakes made
  2. Bodies are still being recovered
  3. People have died from side effects from the war
  4. No new names have been added
  5. People have complained about the forgotten names
Grade 8 Modern Era
What is meant by web 2.0?
Grade 8 Modern Era
How are names arranged on the Vietnam Wall?
  1. Alphabetically
  2. According to birth date
  3. According to number of years served
  4. According to the branch of service
  5. According to the day they died
Grade 8 Modern Era
Who was the first known casualty of the Vietnam War?
  1. John Rouse
  2. John Fitzgibbon
  3. Ralph Diaz
  4. Joseph Smithfield
  5. Ronald Harobe
Grade 8 Modern Era
What happens to the tributes that are left by the Vietnam Wall?
  1. they are collected and stored
  2. they are thrown away
  3. they are sent to the families
  4. they are left by the memorial
  5. none of the above
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