Background Quiz
The following is a list of statements which are either True or False. When
you take the quiz,
you will have 10 of these statements, chosen at random. You may take the
quiz up to five times; your average score will be recorded in the Gradebook.
Apply
the 80% RULE when you are taking quizzes for these classes.
In other words: don't stress about trying to get 100% on these quizzes. The
quizzes are here to make sure you are ready to go on to the next activity. If
you get 80% or better, you are ready to proceed. If you get less than
80% you need to go back and do the reading again (read more slowly, take notes)
and take the quiz again, aiming for at least 80%.
T
or F ? When he was a young man, Frank Baum wrote for the
theater and worked as an actor. - T or F ?
Frank Baum moved to Hollywood, California in 1910.
- T or F ?
The songs in the film musical Wizard of Oz are based on the theater musical
production.
- T or F ?
Judy Garland starred in the film musical, Wizard of Oz.
- T or F ?
Frank Baum was born in Chicago.
- T or F ?
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was the first book that Baum wrote and published.
- T or F ?
Frank Baum ran as a Republican candidate for President.
- T or F ?
There was an economic depression in the United States in the 1890's.
- T or F ?
The wicked Miss Gulch appears in the film musical Wizard of Oz, but not in
the book.
- T or F ?
L. Frank Baum was born in 1896.
- T or F ?
Baum did not think it was appropriate to make films based on the Oz books.
- T or F ?
When it was first published, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz sold very few copies.
- T or F ?
The film musical Wizard of Oz was released in 1959.
- T or F ?
In the film musical Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's journey to Oz takes place in
a dream.
[Note: in Blackbaord the question says
"journal" - sorry for the typo; it cannot be changed until next semester.]
- T or F ?
In the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's slippers are not red; they are green.
- T or F ?
Some people think the Wizard of Oz is an allegory against the gold monetary
standard.
- T or F ?
In the film musical Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's shoes are red.
- T or F ?
Baum's musical theater version of the Wizard of Oz was a commercial failure.
- T or F ?
Ruth Plumly Thompson and other writers continued to create Oz books after
Baum's death.
- T or F ?
Baum said he came up with the name "Oz" from letters on his filing
cabinet drawers.
- T or F ?
Baum wrote a total of 7 books set in Oz.
- T or F ?
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900.
- T or F ?
One of the munchkins in the cast of Wizard of Oz killed himself on the set
of the film.
- T or F ?
Frank Baum died in 1939.
- T or F ? In
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's trip to Oz is real, not a dream.
