Note Packet

Question 1

Modernism

Answer 1

Designates the broad literary and cultural movement that spanned all of the arts and even spilled into politics and history

Question 2

Where did Modernism begin?

Answer 2

Europe

Spread to US after WW1

Question 3

What technique is used in modernism?

Answer 3

Stream of consciousness

Question 4

What was Modernism concerned with?

Answer 4

• accelerating pace of society toward destruction and meaninglessness
• accurately portray the world as HUMANS saw it

Question 5

Summarize the US in WW1

Answer 5

• attempted to remain neutral

- joined after Germans sunk our tanks

Question 6

What happened to Puerto Ricans in WW1?

Answer 6

Given citizenship just to make them enter the war

Question 7

Importance of WW1 to the Great Gatsby

Answer 7

Jay Gatsby was in WW1

Modernism spread through WW1

Question 8

Modernism in the Great Gatsby

Answer 8

• lack of morals
• narration
• loss of American dream
• social criticism
• modern technology

Question 9

What was the most important technological innovation?

And why?

Answer 9

The automobile

Allowed people to move to socially different areas, could move further out of city and commute

Question 10

Automobiles in GG

Answer 10

Myrtle’s death

George’s occupation

Question 11

Economics in the 1920s

Answer 11

The rich had all the money

most Americans had no savings

Question 12

Al Capone

Answer 12

lead role in most organized crime at the time

Question 13

Where did the mafia develop?

Answer 13

Italy

Question 14

Bonny and Clyde

Answer 14

outlaws that captured the media’s attention

poor rising up

Question 15

Importance of organized crime in GG

Answer 15

Gatsby is a bootlegger

Question 16

Who was the first person to use the term “jazz age”?

Answer 16

Fitzgerald

Question 17

Where was the jazz age born?

Answer 17

New Orleans from African Americans

Question 18

Importance of jazz in GG

Answer 18

Gatsby’s parties

Question 19

Jazz club/speakeasy

Answer 19

Only place that you could drink since alcohol was illegal

Question 20

Flappers

Answer 20

trendsetters in fashion

feminists

groupies for jazz bands

Question 21

What rebellious things did flappers do?

Answer 21

smoking, alcohol in roooms, short skirts, short hair

new women

Question 22

What was going on in sports in the 1920s?

Answer 22

Football and golf gain popularity

radio made national pastime baseball

player’s salaries increased

Question 23

Importance of sports in GG

Answer 23

Jordan baker is a pro golfer and has low integrity

she cheated to win her first match

Question 24

Where does GG take place?

Answer 24

Long Island, New York

Question 25

What is Long Island known for

Answer 25

Beaches close proximity to alcohol coney island

Question 26

What is Long Island split into?

Answer 26

West and East Egg

Question 27

Nova Scotia

Answer 27

Rum runners that obtained alcohol close to Long Island

Question 28

What class was Fitzgerald born into?

Answer 28

Upper middle class

Question 29

What greatly affected Fitzgerald?

Answer 29

Alcoholism interfered with his work and social life

Question 30

What type of work did Fitzgerald do? And how did he feel about it?

Answer 30

He wrote scripts for movies and short stories He found this work degrading

Question 31

Fitzgerald's marriage

Answer 31

Met Zelda in the army had a poor life together they partied hard

Question 32

How did Fitzgerald die?

Answer 32

Heart attack

Question 33

What happened to Zelda?

Answer 33

She was committed to a mental hospital

Question 34

Black white relations in the 1920s

Answer 34

Jim Crowe laws slaves move to Northern cities start of Civil Rights movement still lots of racism

Question 35

Lost generation

Answer 35

refers to a group of writers who were men and women of this period translated their disillusionment into a social protest and produced some of the greatest works of 10th century literature

Question 36

How did the lost generation come about?

Answer 36

After WW1 life seemed bleak People had no hopes about their future or humanity's