Deck 23: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929

Question 1

Charlie Chaplin is best associated with:

A) politics
B) muckraking journalism
C) alternative comedy
D) stand-up comedy
E) slapstick comedy

Answer 1

slapstick comedy

Question 2

The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular rural America.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Flappers was the slang word for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Conservative moralists saw the flappers as a positive influence on society.

Question 5

The Harlem Renaissance grew out of the fast-growing African American community in Atlanta.

Question 6

When Hemingway published his first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), he used the phrase "lost generation" as the book's epigraph.

Question 7

The consumer culture generated bewildering changes in everyday life.

Question 8

Cultural conflicts resulted largely from explosive tensions between rural and urban ways of life.

Question 9

The success of mass production made mass consumption less important than ever.

Question 10

During the 1920s, scientists' ideas about the nature of the universe inspired modernist artists to try new techniques.

Question 11

In the political arena, reactionaries and rebels battled for control of:

A) people who had been lied to about the war
B) a postwar society driven by conflict
C) the southern vote
D) the northern cities
E) President Woodrow Wilson's legacy

Question 12

In 1920, what percentage of homes in America had electricity?

A) 60
B) 35
C) 50
D) 25
E) 75

Question 13

The nation's total wealth almost tripled between 1920 and 1930, while wage workers enjoyed record-breaking increases in average income.

Question 14

The NAACP favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination.

Question 15

Paul Gauguin acknowledged that the upheavals of cultural modernism and the aftermath of the war produced "an epoch of progress."

Question 16

Albert Einstein was a member of Al Capone's gang in Chicago.

Question 17

Jazz music inspired rural youth to remember their culture's musical roots.

Question 18

What event pushed the development of the airplane?

A) the development of the car
B) advertising on the radio
C) political pressure
D) the defense industry
E) World War I

Question 19

The major American prophets of modernist literature lived in Europe.

Question 20

The first radio station to begin broadcasting regularly scheduled programs was located in:

A) Detroit, Michigan
B) New York, New York
C) Cleveland, Ohio
D) Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
E) Boston, Massachusetts

Question 21

Harold Edward "Red" Grange is best associated with:

A) being a great leader
B) football
C) boxing
D) baseball
E) being a Communist

Question 22

Petting parties were:

A) opportunities for young men and women to experiment sexually with each other
B) opportunities for young men and women to learn about proper treatment of dogs and cats
C) opportunities to raise money for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
D) visits to the zoo so young people could get away from their parents
E) parents' chance to teach their children proper morals

Question 23

After encountering strong resistance, Mabel Puffer and Arthur Hazzard:

A) were married in New Hampshire
B) were married in New York
C) were married in Canada
D) were never allowed to marry
E) were really not engaged to be married

Question 24

In 1920, how many cars were registered in the United States?

A) 4 million
B) 6 million
C) 8 million
D) 10 million
E) 11 million

Question 25

All of the following could be associated with flappers EXCEPT:

A) bobbed hair
B) Victorian values
C) smoking and drinking
D) swearing
E) petting

Question 26

Which amendment to the Constitution is known as the Prohibition amendment?

A) Seventeenth
B) Eighteenth
C) Nineteenth
D) Twentieth
E) Twenty-first

Question 27

James Weldon Johnson coined the term:

A) bootlegger
B) progressivism
C) flapper
D) Negro
E) Aframerican

Question 28

The Roaring Twenties was dubbed the "Jazz Age" by:

A) Upton Sinclair
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Langston Hughes
D) Louis Armstrong
E) F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 29

The desire to restore traditional values and social stability in 1920 led voters to elect as president:

A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Calvin Coolidge
C) Theodore Roosevelt
D) Warren G. Harding
E) William Jennings Bryan

Question 30

Who was once known as the "Lone Eagle"?

A) W. E. B. Du Bois
B) Henry Ford
C) Charles Lindbergh
D) Woodrow Wilson
E) Marcus Garvey

Question 31

William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey is best associated with:

A) football
B) baseball
C) horse racing
D) boxing
E) radio

Question 32

Who celebrated the jazz era's spontaneity and sensual vitality?

A) Sherwood Anderson
B) Countee Cullen
C) James Weldon Johnson
D) Upton Sinclair
E) F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 33

Conservative moralists saw the flappers as just another sign of:

A) progress
B) equality
C) women's rights
D) a degenerating society
E) the work of the devil

Question 34

What were the professional baseball leagues for African Americans called?

A) Negro Leagues
B) Black Leagues
C) African American Leagues
D) Minor Leagues
E) Inner City Leagues

Question 35

The "House That Ruth Built" is known as:

A) Wrigley Field
B) Yankee Stadium
C) Red Sox Field
D) Tiger Stadium
E) Ebbets Field

Question 36

The movement of southern blacks to the North:

A) was called the Great Migration
B) created the rise of the KKK
C) saw many African Americans return to Africa
D) was so large that southern agriculture was interrupted
E) meant industry could no longer hire whites

Question 37

Amelia Earhart:

A) was the first aviator to fly around the world
B) was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
C) was the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic
D) was the first woman elected to Congress
E) was an advocate of Prohibition

Question 38

The novel This Side of Paradise concerned:

A) immigrant life in New York City
B) the lax enforcement of Prohibition
C) modernist student life at Princeton
D) fundamentalist attacks on modernism
E) the beginnings of Miami's tourist industry

Question 39

Which one of the following is associated with Detroit, Michigan?

A) airplane industry
B) socialism
C) farming
D) entertainment industry
E) automobile industry

Question 40

The amendment to the Constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors went into effect in:

A) 1911
B) 1920
C) 1922
D) 1928
E) 1932

Question 41

Baseball, like football, tended to attract:

A) large crowds of spectators
B) women spectators
C) black spectators
D) lower-class spectators
E) immigrant spectators

Question 42

Which of the following did W.E.B. Du Bois say in his opposition to Marcus Garvey?

A) "We have to rid ourselves of this viper."
B) "He will help only his friends and not the great mass of black people."
C) "He thinks that black people are only good enough to be plumbers."
D) "He believes himself to be the very second coming of Christ."
E) He is "the most dangerous enemy of the Negro race. . . . He is either a lunatic or a traitor."

Question 43

Gertrude Stein was a(n):

A) disc jockey
B) Dada artist
C) experimentalist poet
D) freedom fighter in World War I
E) member of Congress

Question 44

The NAACP emphasized:

A) legal action against discrimination
B) the formation of a black political party
C) vocational and technical education
D) Garvey's concept of social and political separation of blacks
E) strictly black membership

Question 45

Marcus Garvey:

A) sought reconciliation with southern whites
B) said blacks should return to Africa
C) was a revered jazz saxophonist
D) helped lead the suffragist movement
E) was allied with W. E. B. Du Bois

Question 46

Jazz:

A) was a European innovation emerging from modern classical music
B) blended several musical traditions
C) was invented by Benny Goodman
D) helped calm the fears of rural fundamentalists
E) inspired rebellious youth to violence

Question 47

In physics, the theory that the fundamental concepts of space, time, matter, and energy are not distinct, independent things with stable dimensions was developed by:

A) Albert Einstein
B) Isaac Newton
C) Werner Heisenberg
D) Max Planck
E) Sir Francis Bacon

Question 48

Ernest Hemingway wrote of:

A) rational people dedicated to traditional values
B) "real" life punctuated by the doomed, war-tainted love affairs of young Americans
C) patriotic fervor among the American expatriate writers in Paris
D) masculinity and a desperate search for life
E) hope and happiness in America's heartland

Question 49

The horrors of World War I accelerated:

A) the need to rearm
B) the formation of the United Nations
C) the birth of computers
D) rebellion in the United States
E) the rise of modernism in the arts

Question 50

The novels of Ernest Hemingway:

A) portrayed utopian communities in a socialist society
B) attacked the corruption of machine politics in the large cities
C) traced the philosophical connections between twentieth-century America and eighteenth-century Britain
D) described the frenetic, hard-drinking lifestyle and the cult of robust masculinity that Hemingway himself epitomized
E) documented "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history"

Question 51

Who developed the theoretical basis for quantum physics?

A) Albert Einstein
B) Isaac Newton
C) Max Planck
D) Werner Heisenberg
E) Sir Francis Bacon

Question 52

The Armory Show in 1913:

A) was a controversial exhibition of modern art
B) introduced many women to new clothing fashions
C) featured poetry readings by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
D) showed the continuing appeal of traditional values
E) led directly to woman suffrage

Question 53

All of the following were prophets of modern art and literature EXCEPT:

A) Ezra Pound
B) Edward Bellamy
C) Gertrude Stein
D) T. S. Eliot
E) Ernest Hemingway

Question 54

The Universal Negro Improvement Association:

A) sponsored black artists and writers
B) was led by Marcus Garvey
C) promoted Booker T. Washington's idea of racial peace through accommodation
D) was the forerunner of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
E) was conceived by W. E. B. Du Bois

Question 55

The Waste Land, a poem that became the favorite of many modernist readers because of its sense of disillusionment and its suggestion of a burned-out civilization, was written by:

A) Franz Boas
B) T. S. Eliot
C) Ezra Pound
D) Gertrude Stein
E) E. E. Cummings

Question 56

Who wrote "fed up With Jim Crow laws, / People who are cruel And afraid, / Who lynch and run, / Who are scared of me And me of them"?

A) Claude McKay
B) Jean Toomer
C) DuBose Heyward
D) Langston Hughes
E) W. E. B. Du Bois

Question 57

Modernists in art and literature came to believe that:

A) nature's reality can be captured in art
B) human reason ruled all of nature
C) science and art had no connection
D) art, in the end, had rules that should be obeyed
E) the subconscious fascinated some people and scared others

Question 58

Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., a St. Louis-based mail pilot, made the first solo transatlantic flight, traveling from New York to Paris in:

A) 1927
B) 1928
C) 1926
D) 1920
E) 1929

Question 59

The 1920s "New Era" was created by advances in all of the following EXCEPT:

A) communications
B) transportation
C) government-funded programs
D) business organization
E) the spread of mass consumerism

Question 60

In physics, the theory of relativity was developed and explained by:

A) Albert Einstein
B) Isaac Newton
C) Max Planck
D) Werner Heisenberg
E) Sir Francis Bacon

Question 61

What were the political and cultural manifestations of a new sense of identity among blacks in the 1920s?

Question 62

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
James Weldon Johnson

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
C)wrote Three Lives
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)was the NAACP field secretary
F)was a silent film star
G)denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)was the leader of Negro nationalism
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight

Question 63

Which court case or legal action brought the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments back to life?

A) Abrams v. United States (1918)
B) Schenck v. United States (1917)
C) Buchanan v. Worley (1917)
D) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
E) Guinn v. United States (1915)

Question 64

Who was the New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan who observed many young mothers struggling to provide for their growing families?

A) Gertrude Stein
B) T. S. Eliot
C) Margaret Sanger
D) Amelia Earhart
E) Ernest Hemingway

Question 65

How did the scientific work of Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg influence American thought?

Question 66

Discuss the meaning and significance of the Harlem Renaissance.

Question 67

Who, in 1921, told Hemingway that he and his friends who had served in the war "are a lost generation?"

A) Gertrude Stein
B) Ezra Pound
C) T. S. Eliot
D) Franz Boas
E) Ernest Hemingway

Question 68

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
Charlie Chaplin

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
C)wrote Three Lives
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)was the NAACP field secretary
F)was a silent film star
G)denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)was the leader of Negro nationalism
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight

Question 69

Describe the influence of modernism in literature.

Question 70

Fitzgerald's stories during the 1920s were:

A) written for Hollywood
B) painfully autobiographical
C) not discovered until the 1960s
D) nonfiction
E) about science

Question 71

Trace the career of Marcus Garvey and show how his philosophy divided the African American community in the 1920s.

Question 72

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
T. S. Eliot

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
C)wrote Three Lives
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)was the NAACP field secretary
F)was a silent film star
G)denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)was the leader of Negro nationalism
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight

Question 73

Examine and evaluate the characteristics of the African American life in the 1920s.

Question 74

"The major theme in American society in the 1920s was the theme of cultural alienation." Defend this statement.

Question 75

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
C)wrote Three Lives
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)was the NAACP field secretary
F)was a silent film star
G)denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)was the leader of Negro nationalism
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight

Question 76

Describe the defensive temper of the 1920s. What factors contributed to it?

Question 77

Define what the phrase "The Modernist Revolt" means.

Question 78

Discuss the emerging mass culture from the crucible of the Great War to the Great Depression.

Question 79

Hemingway used the phrase "lost generation" as the epigraph in:

A) A Farewell to Arms (1929)
B) This Side of Paradise (1920)
C) The Waste Land (1922)
D) Three Lives (1909)
E) his first novel

Question 80

Describe the variety of spectator sports common in the 1920s. How successful were they in capturing the imagination of Americans?