Deck 25: The Modern Temper

Question 1

The 1924 immigration law:

A) stopped the illegal flow of immigrants into the United States
B) encouraged immigration from Japan and China
C) continued an open-door policy, whereby almost all new arrivals would be admitted
D) set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country
E) restricted immigration to those from eastern Europe

Answer 1

set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country

Question 2

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

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The major American prophets of modernist literature lived in Europe.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:

A) favored immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
B) encouraged Asians to immigrate to America
C) set strict limits on immigration from Mexico
D) rescinded the Gentlemen's Agreement accepted during Theodore Roosevelt's administration
E) favored immigrants from northern and western Europe

Question 5

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was based mainly on:

A) anti-Semitic rhetoric
B) prohibition
C) fundamentalist religious beliefs
D) anti-black rhetoric
E) "100 percent Americanism"

Question 6

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:

A) convicted of bombing eight army supply trucks
B) two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was doubt as to their guilt
C) finally exonerated of the charges of payroll robbery and murder
D) murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan
E) the New York Yankees' double-play combination during the 1920s

Question 7

In the 1920s, people of Latin American descent became the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the United States.

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization.

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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 riven by conflict.
C) the southern vote
D) the northern cities
E) President Woodrow Wilson's legacy

Question 14

Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg were members of Al Capone's gang in Chicago.

Question 15

Proponents of Prohibition displayed ethnic and social prejudices in the drive to make America "dry."

Question 16

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

Question 17

The Scopes "monkey trial" sought to keep the theory of evolution in science classrooms in Tennessee.

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

Conservative moralists saw the flappers as positive influence on society.

Question 21

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 22

Which one of the following is associated with Dayton, Tennessee?

A) Paul Gauguin
B) F.Scott Fitzgerald
C) the lynching of three Italian anarchists
D) Ernest Hemingway
E) the Scopes trial

Question 23

The Scopes trial:

A) pitted William Howard Taft, former U.S. president and confessed agnostic, for the prosecution against fundamentalist Clarence Darrow for the defense
B) concerned a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools
C) represented victory of the fundamentalist movement in America
D) prosecuted Klansmen for lynching
E) brought Americans together on the subject of education

Question 24

James Weldon Johnson coined the term:

A) bootlegger
B) progressivism
C) flapper
D) negro
E) "Aframerican"

Question 25

How many members did the Ku Klux Klan allegedly have at its peak?

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

Question 26

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 27

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 28

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 29

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 30

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 31

As a result of the Scopes trial:

A) John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution
B) the fundamentalist movement disappeared
C) William Jennings Bryan's political career was revived
D) Tennessee's anti-evolution law was declared unconstitutional
E) Clarence Darrow's legal career faded into obscurity

Question 32

Not being able to convict Al Capone on bootlegging charges, the federal government convicted him for:

A) illegal immigration activities
B) drug trafficking
C) contempt of Congress
D) tax evasion
E) prostitution

Question 33

The amendment to the constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was ratified in:

A) 1911
B) 1919
C) 1922
D) 1928
E) 1932

Question 34

William Jennings Bryan:

A) believed evolution should be taught in science classes
B) prosecuted John Scopes in the Dayton, Tennessee, evolution case for teaching evolution
C) was the mayor of Dayton, Tennessee
D) was a vocal supporter of the Ku Klux Klan
E) advocated Prohibition

Question 35

The journalist H. L. Mencken described William Jennings Bryan as a:

A) great leader
B) fundamentalist pope
C) cold-headed cucumber
D) dangerous alien
E) communist

Question 36

By the 1910s, the Anti-Saloon League:

A) was out of business
B) only had a minimal effect on Americans
C) called for a withdrawal of the Eighteenth Amendment
D) had become one of the most effective pressure groups in American history
E) merged with the WCTU

Question 37

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 38

Who said, "When the hordes of aliens walk to the ballot box and their votes outnumber yours, then that alien horde has got you by the throat"?

A) Clarence Darrow
B) Ruth Benedict
C) William J. Simmons
D) Moorefield Storey
E) Marcus Garvey

Question 39

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 (ASPCA)
D) visits to the zoo so young people could get away from their parents
E) parents' chance to teach their children proper morals

Question 40

Which amendment to the constitution is known as the prohibition amendment?

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

Question 41

Gertrude Stein was a(n):

A) disc jockey
B) dada artist
C) experimentalist poet
D) freedom fighter in WWI
E) member of Congress

Question 42

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

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

Question 43

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 44

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 insurgency of modernism in the arts

Question 45

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 is more interesting and more potent than the traditional focus on reason

Question 46

Unlike baseball, football tended to attract more:

A) affluent spectators
B) women spectators
C) Negro spectators
D) lower-class spectators
E) immigrant spectators

Question 47

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 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 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 50

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 51

Jazz:

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

Question 52

The author of Cane, considered by many to be the single greatest work of the Harlem Renaissance, was:

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

Question 53

In physics, the development of quantum theory is most associated with:

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

Question 54

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 only are 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 55

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 56

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 57

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 58

In physics, the "uncertainty principle" was developed by:

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

Question 59

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 60

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 61

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

Question 63

Discuss America's turn toward nativism in the early 1920s. What motivated this ideology, and what groups supported it?

Question 64

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

Question 65

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

Question 66

The best-selling novelist of the 1920s was:

A) Gertrude Stein
B) T. S. Eliot
C) Zane Grey
D) e. e. cummings
E) Ernest Hemingway

Question 67

Describe America's turn to Prohibition in the 1920s. What were the results of the Eighteenth Amendment?

Question 68

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

Question 69

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

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

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 rise of fundamentalism in the 1920s. Show how this issue led to the Scopes trial and how that case was decided.

Question 72

Describe the influence of modernism in literature.

Question 73

Far more people read the uplifting poetry of Carl Sandburg than the despairing verse of:

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

Question 74

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

Question 75

How did the rise of fundamentalism in the 1920s inspire the rise of modernism?

Question 76

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

Question 77

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