CTLE - Kennedy of Albany: A Writer and His City
By filling out this form you are attesting to having watched the documentary Kennedy of Albany: A Writer and His City in its entirety for 1 hour of CTLE credit. You will receive a CTLE completion certificate within 2 weeks of completing this form.

You will receive a copy of your answers via email when you submit the form. If you have questions, please contact education@wmht.org.
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1. What is your name as it appears on your TEACH account?

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2. What is your address?

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3. What is your date of birth?

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4. What are the last 4 digits of your social security #?
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5. Does Kennedy consider himself to be a “regional writer”? Does he regard the term “regional writer” in a positive or negative light?

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6. What was north Albany like in the 1930s when Kennedy was growing up?

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7. Describe the relationship between the Times Union and the Democratic Party machine in the 1950s.

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8. Why did Kennedy move to Puerto Rico? What was that experience like for him?

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9. Describe Kennedy’s relationships with Hunter S. Thompson and Saul Bellow.

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10. How had the city and the country changed when Kennedy moved back to Albany in 1963? What kind of stories did Kennedy cover as a journalist?

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11. What are the major themes in Kennedy’s Albany Cycle (Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, Ironweed, Quinn’s Book, The Flaming Corsage, Very Old Bones, Roscoe, and Chango’s Beads & Two-Tone Shoes)?

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12. How did the MacArthur Fellowship and the Pulitzer Prize impact Kennedy’s life and career?

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