- 1. In what year was the Untold History Education Project launched?
A) 2010
B) 2013
C) 2008
D) 2015
- 2. Who launched the Untold History Education Project along with Oliver Stone?
A) Tariq Ali
B) Henry Wallace
C) Kuznick
D) Barack Obama
- 3. What is the primary goal of the Untold History Education Project?
A) Promoting government policy
B) Standardizing national testing
C) Fostering critical thinking
D) Increasing military recruitment
- 4. Which historical figure is featured in a conversation with Oliver Stone in the Prequels?
A) Henry Wallace
B) Tariq Ali
C) Winston Churchill
D) Joseph McCarthy
- 5. Chapter 1 of the documentary series focuses on which global conflict?
A) The Cold War
B) The Vietnam War
C) World War II
D) World War I
- 6. Which country's contribution to the war effort is highlighted in Chapter 1?
A) Italy
B) China
C) Soviet Union
D) France
- 7. The Democratic party made efforts to remove which individual from the 1944 presidential ticket?
A) Henry Wallace
B) Dwight Eisenhower
C) Franklin Roosevelt
D) Harry Truman
- 8. Chapter 3 of the series focuses on the use of what weapon?
A) Chemical weapons
B) Atomic bombs
C) Biological agents
D) Intercontinental missiles
- 9. Which famous speech is analyzed in the chapter regarding the Cold War's origins?
A) Iron Curtain
B) Four Freedoms
C) Gettysburg Address
D) I Have a Dream
- 10. Who led a controversial anti-Communist crusade during the Cold War?
A) Richard Nixon
B) Ronald Reagan
C) Joseph McCarthy
D) Dwight Eisenhower
- 11. Which agency is a main focus of Chapter 5 regarding the 1950s?
A) NSA
B) NASA
C) CIA
D) FBI
- 12. Which event occurred during John F. Kennedy's presidency as covered in Chapter 6?
A) Tehran Conference
B) Fall of the Berlin Wall
C) Invasion of Panama
D) Bay of Pigs invasion
- 13. What is the central theme of Chapter 7?
A) Gulf War
B) Korean War
C) Vietnam War
D) Spanish Civil War
- 14. Which two leaders are noted for new peace attempts as the Berlin Wall fell?
A) Kennedy and Khrushchev
B) Reagan and Gorbachev
C) Bush and Clinton
D) Truman and Stalin
- 15. Which country did the US invade in the chapter regarding American Triumphalism?
A) Cuba
B) Panama
C) Vietnam
D) Poland
- 16. The final chapter covers the presidency of which leader?
A) George H.W. Bush
B) Bill Clinton
C) Barack Obama
D) Jimmy Carter
- 17. Who created, directed, and produced the documentary series The Untold History of the United States?
A) Matt Graham
B) Tavis Smiley
C) Peter Kuznick
D) Oliver Stone
- 18. How many regular episodes are in the series?
A) Ten
B) Seven
C) Two
D) Twelve
- 19. How many prologue episodes does the series feature?
A) Ten
B) Four
C) Two
D) Three
- 20. What is the occupation of Peter Kuznick?
A) Narrator
B) Screenwriter
C) Historian
D) Producer
- 21. Which television network aired the documentary series?
A) PBS
B) HBO
C) Showtime
D) Netflix
- 22. What year was the series officially released on Showtime?
A) 2013
B) 2010
C) 2008
D) 2012
- 23. How much of his own money did Oliver Stone spend on the project?
A) $500,000
B) $5 million
C) $3 million
D) $1 million
- 24. How long did the production of the series take?
A) One year
B) Two years
C) Four years
D) Five years
- 25. What was the total budget of the series after it inflated?
A) $10 million
B) $3 million
C) $1 million
D) $5 million
- 26. Who narrated the audiobook version of the project?
A) Peter Kuznick
B) Peter Berkrot
C) Oliver Stone
D) Tavis Smiley
- 27. Where did the first three episodes of the series premiere?
A) American University
B) New York Film Festival
C) Showtime headquarters
D) Subversive Festival
- 28. How many pages is the companion book to the series?
A) 500
B) 1000
C) 250
D) 750
- 29. Which city hosted the Subversive Festival where Stone presented the series?
A) London, UK
B) New York City, USA
C) Zagreb, Croatia
D) Washington D.C., USA
- 30. When was the series released on DVD?
A) March 4, 2014
B) November 12, 2012
C) October 30, 2012
D) October 15, 2013
- 31. Besides archival material and maps, what does the series use to illustrate specific topics?
A) Modern-day news broadcasts
B) Clips from fictional movies
C) Live theatrical reenactments
D) Interviews with world leaders
- 32. Approximately how many fictional movies and TV shows did Oliver Stone use clips from in the series?
A) 150
B) 20
C) 60
D) 100
- 33. Which journalist described the series and book as 'riveting', 'provocative' and 'worthwhile'?
A) Glenn Greenwald
B) Verne Gay
C) Michael C. Moynihan
D) David Wiegand
- 34. Who praised the editing work of Alex Marquez in the San Francisco Chronicle?
A) Verne Gay
B) Sean Wilentz
C) Glenn Greenwald
D) David Wiegand
- 35. What specifically did Verne Gay find 'weirdly engrossing' in the series?
A) The political arguments
B) The voiceover narration
C) The visual presentation
D) The length of the episodes
- 36. Which historian accused the series of being 'mendacious' Cold War revisionism?
A) Michael C. Moynihan
B) Sean Wilentz
C) Ronald Radosh
D) Peter Kuznick
- 37. To which author did Ronald Radosh compare Oliver Stone's arguments?
A) Glenn Greenwald
B) Carl Marzani
C) Dick Cheney
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
- 38. What criticism did Michael C. Moynihan level against the book regarding the Soviet Union and the United States?
A) Excessive plagiarism
B) Intellectual dishonesty
C) Lack of citations
D) Moral equivalence
- 39. Who compared the sourcing in the book to 'Dick Cheney’s cherry-picking of intelligence'?
A) Verne Gay
B) Ronald Radosh
C) Michael C. Moynihan
D) Sean Wilentz
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