Deck 35: New York skyscraper Culture and the Jazz Age: Making It New

Question 1

What typically are the subjects of blues songs?

A)Loss and injustice
B)Deferred dreams
C)Home and family
D)Violence and death

Answer 1

A

Question 2

According to the first-person narrator of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby,what is Jay Gatsby's great tragedy?

A)Lusting for a married woman
B)Amassing wealth through illegal means
C)Believing in the American Dream
D)Rejecting of his working-class roots

Answer 2

C

Question 3

According to W.E.B.Du Bois,what major problem did African Americans face at the turn of the century?

A)Oppression from whites
B)Double-consciousness of self
C)Lack of education
D)Substandard living conditions

Answer 3

B

Question 4

What artistic movement do the quilts of Gee's Bend,AL,resemble?

A)Impressionism
B)Cubism
C)Fauvism
D)Modern abstract

Question 5

Why does New York Coty's Chrysler Building have stainless steel eagle gargoyles?

A)Add height to the skyscraper
B)Symbolize United States' superiority
C)Provide terraces for its occupants
D)Replicate Chrysler hood ornament

Question 6

Why was Frank Lloyd Wright's inclusion in the International Style exhibition of 1922 ironic?

A)He despised the International Style
B)He did not design skyscrapers
C)He was working in Europe at that time
D)He considered his designs too old-fashioned

Question 7

Why is William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury considered one of the most daring uses of stream of consciousness in modern fiction?

A)It's told from the viewpoints of 15 different characters
B)One of its narrators is intellectually disabled
C)Its interior monologues span multiple generations
D)One of its narrators is a victim of rape

Question 8

Why did Frank Lloyd Wright dislike the International Style?

A)Too artificial
B)Too massive
C)Too European
D)Too uniform

Question 9

What do skyscrapers,a distinct American invention,predominantly symbolize?

A)American manufacturing skill
B)Corporate power and prestige
C)American male dominance
D)Ostentatious wealth

Question 10

Why was Ernest Hemingway judged unfit for military service in World War I?

A)Flat feet
B)Mental instability
C)Alcoholic
D)Poor eyesight

Question 11

What types of subjects did William Carlos Williams use for his poems?

A)Commonplace,everyday
B)Horrors of disease
C)Religion and faith
D)Wonders of technology

Question 12

Who coined the phrase "Jazz Age" to describe 1920s America?

A)Ernest Hemingway
B)F.Scott Fitzgerald
C)William Faulkner
D)Hart Crane

Question 13

How did George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess bridge the gap between popular and high culture?

A)It blends jazz and blues with orchestras and arias
B)It has been performed by jazz bands and opera companies
C)It sets the plot of Romeo and Juliet in Harlem
D)It was the first Broadway musical to use a jazz band

Question 14

How did New York's white population support the Harlem cultural resurgence?

A)Investing in black-owned businesses
B)Financing revitalization of Harlem apartments
C)Buying blacks' art and frequenting the clubs
D)Supporting black-owned publication houses

Question 15

Why were whites stunned during the 1919 "Red Summer" riots?

A)Blacks fought back
B)Blacks attacked whites
C)Blacks passively resisted
D)Blacks carried guns

Question 16

What characterized the new architecture known as the International Style?

A)Great height and decorative style
B)Highly stylized forms and exotic materials
C)Plain geometries and austere design
D)Machine parts used as décor

Question 17

How did Bessie Smith distinguish her blues songs?

A)Expanding the band to include a saxophone
B)Introducing a call-and-response chorus
C)Adding a chromatic note before a line's last note
D)Singing entirely in the lower blue note

Question 18

Why was the white-audience-only club in Harlem named the Cotton Club?

A)Blacks worked and performed there
B)Its bands played predominantly Dixieland
C)It evoked leisurely plantation life
D)Its owner made his fortune selling cotton

Question 19

Why did Charles Steeler title his painting of the Ford factory Classical Landscape?

A)The title of the polluted scene is meant to evoke irony
B)Ford designed the factory to resemble the Parthenon
C)The factory evokes classical Greek and Roman architecture
D)He proportioned the building according to the Golden Ratio

Question 20

Which of the following is not a reason African Americans migrated from the South in the 1920s?

A)Southern crop devastation
B)Escape from Jim Crow laws
C)Northern labor demand
D)Education opportunities

Question 21

Compare Charles Sheeler's Classical Landscape with Georgia O'Keeffe's Red Hills and Bones

Question 22

Identify and explain two ways the films made in 1920s Hollywood differ from those made in Europe during the same era.

Question 23

Why were male audiences drawn to the monstrous characters played by horror genre-actor Lon Chaney?

A)Identification with the characters' alienation
B)Symbolic catharsis for aggressive tendencies
C)Vicarious ability to triumph over evil
D)Erotic stimulation of subjugating women

Question 24

Define W.E.B Du Bois' "double consciousness" of the African Americans,and show how that "double consciousness" presents itself in two of the following from the 1920s-1930s: literature,visual art,music.

Question 25

Identify and explain two reasons for America's infatuation with its distinct invention,the skyscraper.

Question 26

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why did Adolph Hitler ban abstract art?

A)For including works done by Jewish artists
B)For representing dissolution of the established
C)For not representing subjects realistically
D)For rejecting propagandistic symbolism

Question 27

Compare the symbolism of the machine in E.E.Cummings' "she being brand" and William Carlos Williams's "The Great Figure."

Question 28

Why did Hollywood,CA,become the center of the movie industry?

A)Plentiful cheap Mexican labor
B)Proximity to varied terrain
C)Abundant inexpensive land
D)Large manufacturing area

Question 29

Compare the architecture philosophies of the International Style and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Question 30

Why were between 75 and 90 percent of the films shown in Europe made in America?

A)Europeans were fascinated with American culture
B)Banks refused to loan money to post-war European studios
C)The most popular stars were under contract in America
D)American films were more profitable than European ones

Question 31

Why did the more experimental,avant-garde films develop in Europe?

A)European films contained more symbolism
B)Europeans lacked financing of the major studios
C)Europeans viewed film as a form of high art
D)European film focused more on mood and feeling

Question 32

What label did her contemporary critics place on Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings?

A)Southwestern
B)Feminine
C)Erotic
D)Schizophrenic

Question 33

List and explain three reasons Harlem became a destination of choice for the 1920 Great Migration of southern African Americans

Question 34

Recalling Gertrude Stein's pronouncement that "You are all a lost generation" (Chap.35),show how that sense of alienation appears in the main characters of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

Question 35

Which of the following is not a genre of film that was popularized by the 1920s?

A)Comedy
B)Musical
C)Western
D)Gangster

Question 36

Who among the following was not a major early film star?

A)Mary Pickford
B)Douglas Fairbanks
C)Catherine Barkley
D)Charlie Chaplin

Question 37

Matching

Question 38

Define genre film,and list three types popularized during the 1920s.Then identify three modern films that can be considered genre films.Then explain two reasons for the continuing appeal of the genre film.