1. Nowadays, people are crazy about dance marathons. 2. In the longest marathon, the dancing went on for nearly seven months. 3. Dance marathons appeared during the Great Depression. 4. Entering a dance marathon was a way to become rich. 5. Professional dancers only had a right to participate in a marathon. 6. Watching a dance marathon was an expensive form of entertainment. 7. Bets were made on who would quit or fall down next. 8. Several dancers died from indigestion in 1929. 9. Government officials outlawed marathons when the USA entered World War II. 10. People finally began to lose interest in dance marathons in the 1990s.

The statements can be marked like this:

• 1. False — dance marathons are not a popular craze nowadays.
• 2. True — the longest dance marathon lasted nearly seven months.
• 3. False — dance marathons appeared before the Great Depression, though they became especially popular during it.
• 4. False — people could win money, but it was not really a reliable way to become rich.
• 5. False — not only professional dancers could participate.
• 6. False — watching a dance marathon was usually cheap entertainment.
• 7. True — people made bets on who would quit or fall down next.
• 8. False — dancers suffered from exhaustion and health problems, not from indigestion.
• 9. False — many marathons were banned earlier by local officials, before the USA entered World War II.
• 10. False — people lost interest much earlier, mainly by the late 1930s, not in the 1990s.

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