Deck 23: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929

Question 1

Hemingway published his first novel,The Sun Also Rises,in 1922.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

What event aided the further development of the airplane?

A)advances made in automobiles
B)advertising on the radio
C)political pressure
D)the development of lighter steel
E)increased industrial efforts for World War I

Answer 2

increased industrial efforts for World War I

Question 3

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

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The major American prophets of modernist literature lived in Europe.

Question 5

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

Question 6

Charlie Chaplin is best associated with:

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

Question 7

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

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

The "House That Ruth Built," is also known as:

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

Question 11

Political and social radicalism arose after World War I because:

A)people had been bored by World War I's rationing of goods.
B)postwar culture was entering an era of bewildering change.
C)southerners neglected agricultural responsibilities.
D)northern cities asserted cultural superiority because of industry.
E)President Woodrow Wilson encouraged opposition to old traditions.

Question 12

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

Question 13

Margaret Sanger:

A)was the first aviator to fly around the world.
B)was the first person to advocate for birth control for women.
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 14

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

Question 15

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 16

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

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

Question 17

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination.

Question 18

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 19

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

Question 20

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

A)Detroit.
B)New York.
C)Cleveland.
D)Pittsburgh.
E)Boston.

Question 21

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

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

Question 22

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 23

The NAACP emphasized:

A)enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
B)the formation of a black political party.
C)vocational and technical education.
D)Du Bois's concept of supporting the Talented Tenth.
E)strictly black membership.

Question 24

James Weldon Johnson coined the term:

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

Question 25

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

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

Question 26

In physics,who developed the theoretical basis of quantum theory?

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

Question 27

The Harlem Renaissance:

A)made the connection between the African American experience and the legal structure of Rome.
B)emphasized socialism as the means to black empowerment.
C)sought to rediscover black folk culture.
D)was confined to jazz.
E)embraced Booker T.Washington's conciliatory strategy.

Question 28

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 29

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 30

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 31

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 32

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 33

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

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

Question 34

William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey is best associated with:

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

Question 35

After encountering strong resistance,Mabel Puffer and Arthur Hazzard:

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

Question 36

The movement of southern blacks to the North:

A)was called the "Great Migration."
B)created the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.
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

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

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

Question 38

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.
E)was conceived by W.E.B.Du Bois.

Question 39

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 40

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 41

Modernists in art and literature recognized:

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)new technologies and embraced scientific discovery.

Question 42

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

Question 43

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

Question 44

What was Marcus Garvey's set of answers to the discrimination African Americans experienced in the 1920s,and how did such answers conflict with the ideals of the Harlem Renaissance?

Question 45

Margaret Sanger's initial efforts to educate the public about birth control and responsibility were aimed at:

A)upper class women.
B)lower class women.
C)teens.
D)fathers.
E)mothers.

Question 46

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 47

Discuss the meaning and significance of the Harlem Renaissance.

Question 48

F.Scott Fitzgerald wrote about:

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

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)The Sun Also Rises (1926).

Question 50

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

Question 51

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 52

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

A)Abrams v.United States (1919)
B)Schenck v.United States (1919)
C)Buchanan v.Worley (1917)
D)Plessy v.Ferguson (1896)
E)Guinn v.United States (1915)

Question 53

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 54

Define what the phrase "The Modernist Revolt" means.

Question 55

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 56

Discuss the 1920s women's movement and the various issues it promoted.How successful were the leaders of the movement in achieving their goals?

Question 57

The theories of relativity and quantum physics led people to:

A)hold petting parties.
B)enter retirement.
C)deny the relevance of absolute values in society at large.
D)recognize jazz's role in destabilizing American society.
E)embrace the notion that human reason is immutable.

Question 58

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

Question 59

Discuss the characteristics of the African American way of life in the 1920s.

Question 60

Describe the influence of modernism in literature.

Question 61

MATCHING
Match each person with one of the descriptions below.
Ernest Hemingway

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)coined the word "Aframerican"
C)wrote The Sun Also Rises
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
F)comic genius who perfected their art,transforming it into a form of social criticism
G)Christian moralist who denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight

Question 62

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

Question 63

MATCHING
Match each person with one of the descriptions below.
Charlie Chaplin

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)coined the word "Aframerican"
C)wrote The Sun Also Rises
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
F)comic genius who perfected their art,transforming it into a form of social criticism
G)Christian moralist who denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight

Question 64

MATCHING
Match each person with one of the descriptions below.
Charles A.Lindbergh Jr.

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)coined the word "Aframerican"
C)wrote The Sun Also Rises
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
F)comic genius who perfected their art,transforming it into a form of social criticism
G)Christian moralist who denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight

Question 65

MATCHING
Match each person with one of the descriptions below.
Harold Edward "Red" Grange

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)coined the word "Aframerican"
C)wrote The Sun Also Rises
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
F)comic genius who perfected their art,transforming it into a form of social criticism
G)Christian moralist who denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight

Question 66

MATCHING
Match each person with one of the descriptions below.
James Weldon Johnson

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)coined the word "Aframerican"
C)wrote The Sun Also Rises
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
F)comic genius who perfected their art,transforming it into a form of social criticism
G)Christian moralist who denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight

Question 67

MATCHING
Match each person with one of the descriptions below.
F.Scott Fitzgerald

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)coined the word "Aframerican"
C)wrote The Sun Also Rises
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
F)comic genius who perfected their art,transforming it into a form of social criticism
G)Christian moralist who denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight

Question 68

MATCHING
Match each person with one of the descriptions below.
Marcus Garvey

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)coined the word "Aframerican"
C)wrote The Sun Also Rises
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
F)comic genius who perfected their art,transforming it into a form of social criticism
G)Christian moralist who denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight

Question 69

MATCHING
Match each person with one of the descriptions below.
Margaret Sanger

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)coined the word "Aframerican"
C)wrote The Sun Also Rises
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
F)comic genius who perfected their art,transforming it into a form of social criticism
G)Christian moralist who denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight

Question 70

MATCHING
Match each person with one of the descriptions below.
T.S.Eliot

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)coined the word "Aframerican"
C)wrote The Sun Also Rises
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
F)comic genius who perfected their art,transforming it into a form of social criticism
G)Christian moralist who denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight

Question 71

MATCHING
Match each person with one of the descriptions below.
Francis E.Clark

A)wrote This Side of Paradise
B)coined the word "Aframerican"
C)wrote The Sun Also Rises
D)wrote The Waste Land
E)founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
F)comic genius who perfected their art,transforming it into a form of social criticism
G)Christian moralist who denounced "indecent dance" as "an offense against womanly purity"
H)was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
I)New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan
J)made the first solo transatlantic flight