Chapter 20-The Jazz Age

Question 1

He wrote “Death of a Salesman”, a tragic story but realistic character on the emerging culture of the 1920s

Answer 1

Eugene O’Neill

Question 2

His poetry was complicated and filled with imagery.

Answer 2

c.c. eliot

Question 3

He wrote “A Farewell to Arms”

Answer 3

Ernest Hemingway

Question 4

Ernest Hemingway’s novel about World War I showed the tragedy of war.

Answer 4

A Farewell to Arms

Question 5

She wrote “Coming of Age in Samoa”

Answer 5

Margaret Meade

Question 6

His painting of isolation and miss-understanding demonstrated the lost age of the ex-patriot generation of the 1920s

Answer 6

Edward Hopper

Question 7

He was seen as the poet of the common man.

Answer 7

Carl Sandburg

Question 8

His characters in “The Great Gatsby” showed the glamour, yet empty life of many wealthy during the 1920s

Answer 8

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 9

This was a center of the New York City intellectual movement filled with a bohemian culture in the 1920s

Answer 9

Greenwich Village

Question 10

He was an African American writer from Harlem in the 1920s

Answer 10

Claude McKay

Question 11

She was seen as the Queen of Blues during the 1920s

Answer 11

Bessie Smith

Question 12

The Dempsey vs. Tunney event was in the realm of this sport entertainment

Answer 12

boxing

Question 13

The acts of _____ and _____ were extreme and strange aerial acrobatics entertainment popular during the 1920s.

Answer 13

Wing Walking and Barn Storming

Question 14

KDKA was the first radio broadcast of a presidential election during _______’s election.

Answer 14

Warren G. Harding’s

Question 15

List three important and famous silent movie entertainers during the 1920s?

Answer 15

Mary Pickford
Charlie Chaplin
Rudolph Valentino

Question 16

She was a leader and important advocate of Birth Control during the 1920s

Answer 16

Margaret Sanger

Question 17

This term describes the literal belief in the Bible.

Answer 17

Fundamentalism

Question 18

This term describes the extended theory of natural selection.

Answer 18

Evolutionism

Question 19

Who were the two celebrity lawyers at the Scopes “Monkey” Trial?

Answer 19

William Jennings Bryan

Clarence Darrow

Question 20

This is often referred to as a 14 year progressive experiment to outlaw public consumption of alcohol.

Answer 20

Prohibition

Question 21

This public law by Congress limited overseas immigration fueled by Anti-Immigrant attitudes.

Answer 21

National Origins Act

Question 22

This was a internal population shift of African Americans from the Rural South to the Industrialized North during the 1920s

Answer 22

The Great Migration

Question 23

The 1920s was greatly influenced by this popular music

Answer 23

Jazz

Question 24

He was a African American leader during the 1920s

Answer 24

Marcus Garvey

Question 25

Marcus Garvey’s organization during the 1920s was called

Answer 25

The Universal Negro Improvement Association

Question 26

This was an advancement of African American pride and culture with anti-racist themes during the 1920s

Answer 26

Harlem Renaissance

Question 27

He used his musical talents with the trumpet to play Jazz during the 1920s

Answer 27

Louis Armstrong

Question 28

This was a movement calling for the abandonment of all forms of government popular by some during the early years of the 1900s

Answer 28

anarchy

Question 29

Which political party held power over the presidency during the 1920s

Answer 29

Republican Party

Question 30

His phrase of “Normalcy” echoed an important theme spreading through America during the 1920s against agitation and progressivism.

Answer 30

Warren G. Harding

Question 31

This stance by the United States toward world issues during the 1920s was a direct result of disappointing results from the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I

Answer 31

Isolationism