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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drugs did Siegel push?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Prescription medicine.

2. What era is depicted in "Saturn Over Sunset"?
(a) Silver Age.
(b) Jazz Age.
(c) Musical Age.
(d) Golden age.

3. What was Barry's weekly salary lowered to?
(a) $20.
(b) $40.
(c) $25.
(d) $10.

4. With whom did Gilbert have a drinking contest?
(a) Provost.
(b) Garbo.
(c) Chaplin.
(d) Fox.

5. What type of actors were labeled "Box Office Poison"?
(a) Moral and delusional.
(b) Difficult and obscene.
(c) Pious and righteous.
(d) Fake and gimmicky.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much per week did John Gilbert earn in 1928?

2. How old was Lupe when she killed herself?

3. The district attorney of which city overturned Flynn's case dismissal?

4. What was Frances Farmer dubbed?

5. For what was Flynn arrested and put on trial?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Hopper so critical of Charlie Chaplin?

2. Describe John Gilbert's fall.

3. Describe the "preservation for American ideals."

4. Describe the "suicide syndrome" of the 1940s.

5. Who was Bugsy Siegel?

6. Describe Francis Farmer.

7. What scandal involved Mae West?

8. Why was Charlie Chaplin such a part of scandalous headlines?

9. Describe the protests for the invasion of privacy.

10. What was the Astor-Thorpe scandal?

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