Which genre evolved out of the work farms and cotton fields of the post-Civil War South?

All of the following is true of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 EXCEPT it?

a) was written while the composer was an inmate in a prisoner-of-war camp b) contains the composer's musical monogram c) contains musical quotations form Shostakovich's operas, symphonies, and chamber works d) is dedicated to the memory of the victims of fascism and war

Roman culture traces its origins to the

a. Dorians and the Phoenicians. b. Greeks and the Etruscans. c. Persians and the Etruscans. d, Egyptians and the Greeks.