Which of the following is true about the performer in this listening example?
A. He wrote the Dust Bowl Ballads.
B. He was the first to record commercially “old-time music.”
C. His perhaps most well-known song is “The Times They Are a-Changin.”
D. He also sang about women’s rights.
Answer: B
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All of the following statements are true of Jacques-Louis David's famous painting The Oath of the Horatii, except which one?
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A. The Near East and Egypt B. Mycenae and Egypt C. Crete and the Near East D. Mycenae and the Near East
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A. mistook an upside-down painting of his for an unfamiliar work of spectacular beauty. B. was no longer able to sell any of his traditional landscape paintings. C. had a near-death experience in which he "saw" music and "heard" color. D. was fasting and meditating in a monastery and had a vision of the future of painting. E. None of these answers is correct.