Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-Charlie Chaplin

Accepted Answer

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 
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 3

Ernest Hemingway wrote of:

Accepted Answer

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 
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 4

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

Gertrude Stein was a(n):

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey is best associated with:

Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

All of the following could be associated with flappers EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

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

Question 9

What were the professional baseball leagues for African Americans called?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The Armory Show in 1913:

Accepted Answer

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 
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 12

Describe the influence of modernism in literature.

Accepted Answer

Modernism in literature had a profound i

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

In the 1920s, there were several politic

Question 14

The "House That Ruth Built" is known as:

Accepted Answer

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

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 16

Marcus Garvey:

Accepted Answer

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 
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 17

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-Harold Edward "Red" Grange

Accepted Answer

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 
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 19

Jazz:

Accepted Answer

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 
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 20

The horrors of World War I accelerated:

Accepted Answer

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 
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

Exam 23: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929

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

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -Charlie Chaplin

Ernest Hemingway wrote of:

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

Gertrude Stein was a(n):

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

William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey is best associated with:

All of the following could be associated with flappers EXCEPT:

What were the professional baseball leagues for African Americans called?

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

The Armory Show in 1913:

Describe the influence of modernism in literature.

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

The "House That Ruth Built" is known as:

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

Marcus Garvey:

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

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -Harold Edward "Red" Grange

Jazz:

The horrors of World War I accelerated:

The Collision of Cultures

England’s Colonies

Colonial Ways of Life

From Colonies to States

The American Revolution, 1776-1783

Strengthening the New Nation

The Early Republic, 1800-1815

The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815-1850

Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828

The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840

The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860

Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800-1860

Western Expansion, 1830-1848

The Gathering Storm, 1848-1860

The War of the Union, 1861-1865

The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877

Business and Labor in the Industrial Era, 1860-1900

The New South and the New West, 1865-1900

Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865-1900

Seizing an American Empire, 1865-1913

The Progressive Era, 1890-1920

America and the Great War, 1914-1920

The Reactionary Twenties

The Great Depression, 1929-1939

The Second World War, 1933-1945

The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945-1952

Cold War America, 1950-1959

A New Frontier and a Great Society, 1960-1968

Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s

Conservative Revival, 1977-1990

Twenty-first-century America, 1993-present

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