Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Who developed the theoretical basis for quantum physics?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-Dr. Francis E. Clark

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 5

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

Accepted Answer

The major theme in American society in t

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

Harold Edward "Red" Grange is best associated with:

Accepted Answer

A)  being a great leader 
B)  football 
C)  boxing 
D)  baseball 
E)  being a Communist 
A)  being a great leader 
B)  football 
C)  boxing 
D)  baseball 
E)  being a Communist

Question 9

Charlie Chaplin is best associated with:

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

James Weldon Johnson coined the term:

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

Fitzgerald's stories during the 1920s were:

Accepted Answer

A)  written for Hollywood 
B)  painfully autobiographical 
C)  not discovered until the 1960s 
D)  nonfiction 
E)  about science 
A)  written for Hollywood 
B)  painfully autobiographical 
C)  not discovered until the 1960s 
D)  nonfiction 
E)  about science

Question 14

Modernists in art and literature came to believe that:

Accepted Answer

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 fascinated some people and scared others 
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 fascinated some people and scared others

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

In the 1920s, spectator sports were incr

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Gertrude Stein 
B)  T. S. Eliot 
C)  Margaret Sanger 
D)  Amelia Earhart 
E)  Ernest Hemingway 
A)  Gertrude Stein 
B)  T. S. Eliot 
C)  Margaret Sanger 
D)  Amelia Earhart 
E)  Ernest Hemingway

Question 18

What event pushed the development of the airplane?

Accepted Answer

A)  the development of the car 
B)  advertising on the radio 
C)  political pressure 
D)  the defense industry 
E)  World War I 
A)  the development of the car 
B)  advertising on the radio 
C)  political pressure 
D)  the defense industry 
E)  World War I

Question 19

In the political arena, reactionaries and rebels battled for control of:

Accepted Answer

A)  people who had been lied to about the war 
B)  a postwar society driven by conflict 
C)  the southern vote 
D)  the northern cities 
E)  President Woodrow Wilson's legacy 
A)  people who had been lied to about the war 
B)  a postwar society driven by conflict 
C)  the southern vote 
D)  the northern cities 
E)  President Woodrow Wilson's legacy

Question 20

The Universal Negro Improvement Association:

Accepted Answer

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 
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

Exam 23: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929

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

Who developed the theoretical basis for quantum physics?

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

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -Dr. Francis E. Clark

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

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

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

Harold Edward "Red" Grange is best associated with:

Charlie Chaplin is best associated with:

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

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

James Weldon Johnson coined the term:

Fitzgerald's stories during the 1920s were:

Modernists in art and literature came to believe that:

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

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

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?

What event pushed the development of the airplane?

In the political arena, reactionaries and rebels battled for control of:

The Universal Negro Improvement Association:

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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