Q 01/05

Which children's author drew over 400 political cartoons for the newspaper PM and wrote US Army propaganda films?

A) E. B. White

B) Dr. Seuss

C) Maurice Sendak

D) Shel Silverstein

Answer · why

B) Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss, the pen name of Theodor Geisel, used his cartoons to attack Hitler and American isolationists. He joined the Army in 1943 and wrote the Pri...

Q 02/05

Which Disney character has a nightmare about a Nazi factory in the Oscar-winning 1943 short Der Fuehrer's Face?

A) Mickey Mouse

B) Jiminy Cricket

C) Minnie Mouse

D) Donald Duck

Answer · why

D) Donald Duck

Donald Duck wakes up hugging a model Statue of Liberty, glad to be an American. It is the only Donald Duck film to win an Academy Award, and it was ma...

Q 03/05

Which superhero punched Adolf Hitler on a debut comic cover almost a year before the US entered World War II?

A) Captain America

B) The Human Torch

C) Captain Marvel

D) Wonder Woman

Answer · why

A) Captain America

Captain America was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as an openly anti-Nazi hero. The first issue went on sale in December 1940 and sold out within...

Q 04/05

Which national symbol points straight at the viewer in James Montgomery Flagg's 1917 US Army recruiting poster?

A) Columbia

B) Brother Jonathan

C) Uncle Sam

D) Lady Liberty

Answer · why

C) Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam only gained a standard look with this poster, for which Flagg used a modified version of his own face. More than four million copies were pr...

Q 05/05

Edward Bernays, who wrote the 1928 book Propaganda, was the nephew of which pioneer of psychology?

A) Carl Jung

B) Sigmund Freud

C) Alfred Adler

D) William James

Answer · why

B) Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was related to him twice over: Bernays's mother was Freud's sister, and his father was the brother of Freud's wife. Bernays used his unc...