Question 1

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

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Question 2

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

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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 C

Question 3

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

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

Question 4

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

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Question 5

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

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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 6

How did Bessie Smith distinguish her blues songs?

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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 7

Matching

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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?

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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 9

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.

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Question 10

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

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

Question 11

What typically are the subjects of blues songs?

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

Question 12

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

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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 13

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

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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 14

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

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

Question 15

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

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

Question 16

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

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Question 17

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

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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 18

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

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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 19

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.

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Question 20

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

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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

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