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