AL PUR form no Passage V Few living Americans have attended a Chautauqua and man

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AL PUR form no Passage V Few living Americans have attended a Chautauqua and many especially in the Midwest ua camp ground. The Chautauqua institution was a kind of traveling cultural and radio, television, or efficient transportation. Chautauqua began in 1874 when the Reverent are sometimes puzzled by Chautauq the local names of Chautauqua hill, or Chautauqua Park or educational institution that brought education, entertainment and culture to an eager constituency before John Vincent, a Methodist minister and Luis Miller, an Akron Ohio businessman decided to setup a Sunday school for Sunday school teachers. Their initial encampment, Lake Chautauqua in New York, rapidly expanded to include a school of languages, a summer school for school teachers, school of theology, and a large number of special interest group for music, fine arts, reading, and so on When these were successful, the movement went national from 1903 to 1930 with sales" signing up local business people as underwriters and supporters to guarantee g much like a circus, carnival, or other seats for a Chautauqua season in their local area. Movin traveling tent show, the Chautauqua would spend perhaps a two-week season in one city and then move to the next to repeat its performances. These included the leading orchestra, revivalists, educators, the centers of culture "nor could have enjoyed their resources from the airwaves," received entertainment, education and culture in their own cities. The Chautauqua were so important in the national life at the time that Russell Conway founded Drew university in Philadelphia with the earnings he made delivering a single speech entitled "Acres of Diamonds." The secretary of state William Jennings Bryan left the Paris peace talks, which may have delayed WW ll, to appear on a Chautauqua circus. politicians and intellectuals. The people who could never have traveled to Even though the original Chautauqua group existed in western New York State, the national movement had its day and departed. With improved communications, people could hear the symphonies and lecturers on radios and later see them on television; with improved transportation, they could journey to the centers of culture. Some social observers say that the final blow to the Chautauquas came when the Federal Government decided to tax Chautauqua tickets as entertainment. Audiences, who formally had considered their tickets as educational and cultural, were shocked to have discovered that they had been attending entertainment-and stopped coming. So Chautauqua, like vaudevilles and burlesque, is a memory-but a vital memory of an important influence on the culture of our nation 11. What is the main idea expressed in this passage? some of the most famous actors in the country performed in Chautauquas culture of the United States tax Chautauqua tickets as entertainment a) b) the Chautauquas which has almost vanished contributed significantly to the c) the final blow to the Chautauqua came when the Federal Govemment decided to d) the Chautauqua was a kind of cultural and educational institution

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11. b) The main idea of this passage is to show the impact and importane the Chautuaqua had to the culture development in US. This can be seen in the many examples of the passage of how so many people attended the shows and how each show contributed education and information in to the everyday lives of individuals throughout the country.

12. c) William Bryan's leaving of the peace talks in Paris to attend the Chautuaqua circus showed that he gave more importance to the circus than the peace talk which only further proves how important the circus was in culturally reforming the country.

13. d) The main concept of the passage was to inform the readers that such a circus existed and how they were able to travel across the country to reach so many individuals lives to educate them and inform them about various topics. It proved to be a culture on wheels.

14. c) The passage uses sequence of time. We can see how initially the circus started in New York but as it gained popularity, it started moving across the country. We can also see how with the improvements in communication, people started listening to it on the radio and watching it on the TV.

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