Q4 Test and Vocab Flashcards

Question

What character said, "I hate careless people. That's why I like you."

Answer 1

Jordan Baker

Answer 2

Meyer Wolfshiem

Answer 3

Meyer Wolfshiem

Answer 4

Nick/Fitzgerald/Narrator

Answer 5

Gertrude Stein

Answer 6

A modernist who was a huge influence on literature. She lived in Paris with Alice Toklas. She discovered many modernist artists like Picasso. She was friends with Fitzgerald and Hemingway.

Answer 7

Photography; it inspired different points of view and literary perspectives. This lead to the '3rd person limited narrator.'

Answer 8

He was a modernist poet who said, 'No ideas but in things,' and believed that everything is expressed through an object.

Answer 9

Modernism represented a huge break from the past and connections to traditions of Western civilization. It represented newness.

Answer 10

Cubism, Impressionism, Harlem Renaissance

Answer 11

Cars, electricity, radio, telephone, movies

Answer 12

'Disillusionment.' This term came from WWI veterans coming home and being confused about jobs being taken with no homes or lives and not knowing what to do.

Answer 13

Prohibition

Answer 14

Women who were more boyish, had short hair, and wore short dresses. These women were strong, independent, and rebellious. They also wore pants and drank alcohol.

Answer 15

1914- 1930's

Answer 16

- African American roots/culture (slavery &Africa) - sad parts - celebration/liberation ---> New Negro - Struggle & optimism - New identities - Hope (for the future and progressing and improving)

Answer 17

Modernist writing was all about breaking away from the past and making things 'new.' It also dealt with multiple points of view and new perspectives.

Answer 18

1. The perspective/narration of the novel- everything is filtered through Nick and his opinions. 2. The effects of a rapidly changing world on people (industrialism) 3. It is a rejection of tradition and the past 4. Development of technology 5. Feminism 6. Disillusionment

Answer 19

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen

Answer 20

- East Egg: Old Money, Buchanans, less flaunty, "I have money" - West Egg: New Money, Gatsby, more flaunty, "I get money"

Answer 21

Famous dancers and singers who got their big break at the Cotton Club in 1932 and were in movies such as Stormy Weather. They also developed the 'Classical Tap' dance.

Answer 22

A writer from Missouri. He had a melancholy yet celebratory writing style. His first book of Poetry was 'The Weary Blues.' A famous piece of his was 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers.'

Answer 23

A visual artist from SC who painted 'Chain Gang' depicted African Americans bound together by chains.

Answer 24

A writer from Jamaica who wrote 'If We Must Die,' which deals with injustice and discrimination, and shows harsher sides of the struggle and anger.

Answer 25

A writer who wrote the poem 'Heritage,' which had a more peaceful tone, talking about the desire for both black and white cultures. He also married the daughter of WEB DuBois.

Answer 26

In 1923 in a musical called 'Runnin Wild.' It was considered very scandalous at the time.

Answer 27

A visual artist from Kansas. He was the founder of the art department at Fisk University. His works include Aspects of Negro Life, The Negro in an African Setting, Boy With Toy Plane, and Aspiration.

Answer 28

A musician who integrated gospel and jazz music and got inspiration from white bands. One famous work was "Satin Doll".

Answer 29

A poet from Boston. She wrote in dialect. She is known for poems 'My Race' and 'Bottled'. She was important because she was a woman writer and very influential.

Answer 30

'Shorty' Snowden

Answer 31

'Club Deluxe' and was originally opened in 1920 by Jack Johnson

Answer 32

A famous woman writer who wrote fiction novels as well as children's stories. She wrote a lot about strong black women. She also wrote in dialect and used folklore.

Answer 33

Duke Ellington's 12 member band who was the first 'house' band of the Cotton Club.

Answer 34

Executive director of the NAACP

Answer 35

The intellectual who assembled works to go into 'The New Negro'.

Answer 36

An american writer who was an important figure for the Harlem Renaissance and Modernism.

Answer 37

- Jim Crow Laws in South - Sharecropping is crappy - Boll Weevil infestation eating cotton

Answer 38

Jobs (because all the white men are at war)

Answer 39

It had white patrons, but black entertainers

Answer 40

Because America was slowly becoming more strict, like with Prohibition, and Europe is much more free and open.

Answer 41

Leopold Senghor (President of Senegal) and Aime Cesaire (from Martinique). They were trying to spearate African countries from European 'owners.'

Answer 42

Alain Locke's 'The New Negro'