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Timeline: date the record, not the myth.

Five chronology questions use AEU's precision-preserving dates and contested ranges.

Learning objective

Check the record, then inspect the evidence.

Use precision-preserving AEU dates to distinguish chronology from causation or historical importance.

Method: Questions are drawn from AEU event and critical-text records. Exact, month-level, year-level, approximate, and range dates keep their stored precision.

Boundary: Chronology does not imply causation, influence, importance, or movement membership.

Accessibility: Every question uses native radio inputs, visible text choices, per-question feedback, and a no-JavaScript evidence/answer disclosure. No conclusion depends on color, drag-and-drop, timing, or pointer-only input.

Question set

5 evidence checks

Immediate feedback is per-question only. This page does not compute or persist an overall score.

Question 1
Which critical-discourse record is earliest?

Compare the stored publication dates, not later influence or importance.

Choose an answer, then check it against the stored evidence.

Reveal answer + evidence

Stored answer: Avant-Garde and Kitsch — 1939

1939 is the earliest stored publication year among these four discourse records. AEU keeps this essay as earlier critical context rather than as a definition of Abstract Expressionism.

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Question 2
Which AEU event is dated one year before Spiral forms in New York (1963)?

Use the event records' explicit dates.

Choose an answer, then check it against the stored evidence.

Reveal answer + evidence

Stored answer: Institute of American Indian Arts founded — October 1, 1962

IAIA's founding is stored as October 1, 1962; the Spiral formation event is stored as 1963. This chronology does not imply a causal relationship between them.

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Question 3
Which event intentionally preserves a contested 1948–1949 date range?

AEU keeps source disagreement instead of inventing false precision.

Choose an answer, then check it against the stored evidence.

Reveal answer + evidence

Stored answer: Founding / emergence of The Club

The Club event is stored as 1948–1949 because current archival/oral-history sources differ on the founding moment.

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Question 4
Which text/review record is stored as January 1956?

Publication precision is preserved at month level when day-level evidence is unavailable.

Choose an answer, then check it against the stored evidence.

Reveal answer + evidence

Stored answer: Dore Ashton review of Pollock show at Janis Gallery

MoMA's Pollock bibliography supports January 1956 for Ashton's review. AEU does not invent a day-level date or reproduce the review text.

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Question 5
Which discussion record is stored as circa 1965?

Approximate dating remains approximate in the data model.

Choose an answer, then check it against the stored evidence.

Reveal answer + evidence

Stored answer: The Content of Abstract Art

The Archives of American Art source supports a circa-1965 discussion record. Irving Sandler is represented as moderator/contributor, not falsely as its author.

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