Deck 36: New York, skyscraper Culture, and the Jazz Age: Making It New

Question 1

Which artist's two-dimensional silhouetted figures became the signature style of the art of the Harlem Renaissance?

A) Langston Hughes
B) Countee Cullen
C) Robert Johnson
D) Aaron Douglas

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Frank Lloyd Wright's domestic architectural designs are inspired by

A) nature.
B) the Cubists.
C) the Neo-Gothic style.
D) machines.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

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

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

Answer 3

B

Question 4

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

A) The title is meant ironically.
B) The title refers to classic cars.
C) The factory evokes Classical Greek and Roman architecture.
D) The factory forms evoke timeless natural forms.

Question 5

The International Style is characterized by

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 6

Double consciousness is an idea most closely associated with the work of

A) Langston Hughes.
B) W.E.B. Du Bois.
C) Countee Cullen.
D) Zora Neale Hurston.

Question 7

The town of Gee's Bend,Alabama is particularly known for

A) blues.
B) painting.
C) poetry.
D) quiltmaking.

Question 8

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 is told from the viewpoints of several 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 9

How did New York's white population supported the Harlem cultural resurgence by

A) investing in black-owned businesses.
B) financing the revitalization of Harlem apartments.
C) buying blacks' art and frequenting the clubs.
D) supporting black-owned publication houses.

Question 10

According to the first-person narrator of F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby,Jay Gatsby's great tragedy is

A) lusting for a married woman.
B) amassing wealth through illegal means.
C) believing in the American Dream.
D) rejecting his working-class roots.

Question 11

Frank Lloyd Wright found the International Style too

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

Question 12

Whites were stunned during the 1919 "Red Summer" riots,because blacks

A) fought back.
B) fled.
C) passively resisted.
D) carried guns.

Question 13

The typical subjects of blues songs are

A) loss of love, poverty, and injustice.
B) discrimination and racism.
C) longing for home and family.
D) violence and death.

Question 14

The subjects of William Carlos Williams's are

A) commonplace, everyday items.
B) death and disease.
C) religion and faith.
D) the wonders of technology.

Question 15

Skyscrapers predominantly symbolize

A) manufacturing skill.
B) corporate power and prestige.
C) male dominance.
D) freedom.

Question 16

New York City's Chrysler Building has giant Art Deco stainless steel eagle gargoyles to

A) add height to the skyscraper.
B) symbolize U.S. superiority.
C) provide terraces for its occupants.
D) replicate the Chrysler hood ornament.

Question 17

Bessie Smith distinguished her blues songs by

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

George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess bridged the gap between popular culture and high culture by

A) blending jazz and blues with orchestras and arias.
B) being performed by jazz bands and opera companies.
C) setting the plot of Romeo and Juliet in Harlem.
D) being the first Broadway musical to use a jazz band.

Question 19

"An enormous stage swarming with humanity," was Aaron Douglas's first impression of

A) Washington, D.C.
B) Chicago.
C) Topeka.
D) Harlem.

Question 20

Ernest Hemingway's character Nick Adams,a war veteran,goes fishing by himself in northern Michigan to

A) escape a jealous wife.
B) drink himself to death.
C) win a competition.
D) heal from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Question 21

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 22

Nazis required art to be

A) abstract.
B) descriptive.
C) symbolic.
D) expressive.

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

A) European films contained more symbolism.
B) Europeans lacked the 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 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

Hollywood,California become the center of the movie industry because of

A) plentiful cheap labor.
B) proximity to varied terrain.
C) abundant sunshine.
D) a large existing manufacturing industry.

Question 28

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

Question 29

Georgia O'Keeffe's critics labeled her paintings

A) political.
B) feminine.
C) surrealist.
D) traditional.

Question 30

All of the following genres of film were popularized by the 1920s EXCEPT

A) comedy.
B) musical.
C) Western.
D) gangster.

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

Male audiences were drawn to the monstrous characters played by horror-genre actor Lon Chaney out of

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 34

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

Question 35

Why were between 75 percent 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) European lacked skill in filmmaking.
D) American films were more profitable than European ones.

Question 36

All of the following were major early film stars EXCEPT

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

Question 37

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