Quiz #6 Flashcards
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
“In ready-made clothes and ready-made high-school phrases they sank into propriety [. . .] The respectability of the Gopher Prairies, said Carol, is reinforced by vows of poverty and chastity in the matter of knowledge. Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which it is so easy to come by. To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own words, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.”
A. Sinclair Lewis
B. Langston Hughes
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. Gertrude Stein
A. Sinclair Lewis
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
” If one judges by appearances, I suppose I am a flapper. I am within the age limit. I wear bobbed hair, the badge of flapperhood. (And, oh, what a comfort it is!) I powder my nose. I wear fringed skirts and bright-colored sweaters, and scarfs, and waists with Peter Pan collars, and low-heeled “finale hopper” shoes. I adore to dance. I spend a large amount of time in automobiles. I attend hops, and proms, and ball-games, and crew races, and other affairs at men’s colleges. But none the less some of the most thoroughbred superflappers might blush to claim sistership or even remote relationship with such as I. I don’t use rouge, or lipstick, or pluck my eyebrows. I don’t smoke (I’ve tried it, and don’t like it), or drink..”
A. Ellen Welles Page
B. Mary Pickford
C. Bessie Smith
D. Gertrude Stein
A. Ellen Welles Page
One of the most important economic transformations in the years after World War I was
A. the shift from industry’s reliance on railroads to reliance on the automobile.
B. the shift in production from heavy industry to consumer goods and services
C. a change from a more cooperative to a more adversarial relationship between government and business.
D. the move from the Northeast and Midwest to the West Coast as the country’s industrial heartland.
B. the shift in production from heavy industry to consumer goods and services
Which statement about the National Origins Act of 1924 is NOT true?
A. It gave preference to northern and western Europeans.
B. It reflected a resurgent nativism.
C. It completely cut off foreign immigration
D. It set immigration policy for the next 40 years, reversing the three-century-old practice of virtually open immigration.
C. It completely cut off foreign immigration
All of following were innovators of jazz music in the 1920s except:
A. Duke Ellington
B. Louis Armstrong
C. D.W. Griffith
D. Bessie Smith
C. D.W. Griffith
Which of the following influenced the sense of meaninglessness and alienation that was characteristic of writers and intellectuals in the 1920s?
A. the experience of World War I
B.Victorian liberalism
C. anti-nihilist philosophy
D. None of these answers is correct.
A. the experience of World War I
In the 1920s, the automobile
A. was produced mostly for the overseas market since most Americans could not afford them.
B. saw a big increase in popularity, with vehicle registrations jumping from 8 mil. in 1920 to 24 mil. in 1929
C. lost much of its potential market as people turned to the new forms of mass transit available.
D. was still just a plaything of the rich.
B. saw a big increase in popularity, with vehicle registrations jumping from 8 mil. in 1920 to 24 mil. in 1929
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
“In the last decade something beyond the watch and guard of statistics has happened in the life of the American Negro. The Sociologist, The Philanthropist, the Race-leader are not unaware of the New Negro but they are at a loss to account for him. He simply cannot be swathed in their formulae. For the younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses, and under the very eyes of the professional observers is transforming what has been a perennial problem into the progressive phases of contemporary Negro life.”
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. Langston Hughes
D. Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
E. Alain Locke
E. Alain Locke
The National Origins Act, which fixed immigration patterns for four decades,
A. authorized discrimination against American citizens who had a particular national origin.
B. put strict quotas on the number of immigrants to be allowed into the U.S. every year
C. greatly increased immigration from eastern Europe.
D. allowed for increased immigration from Asia, particularly well-educated Japanese.
B. put strict quotas on the number of immigrants to be allowed into the U.S. every year
Aviator Charles “Lucky Lindy” Lindbergh thrilled the world with his solo, non-stop flight from Long Island, NY, to
A. London
B. Madrid
C. Paris
D. Rome
C. Paris
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
“The business of America and its government is business.”
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Henry Ford
C. Clarence Darrow
D. Calvin Coolidge
D. Calvin Coolidge
Which of the following best explains Charles Lindbergh’s popularity following his flight across the Atlantic in 1927?
A. He managed to turn his brief fame into an acting career.
B. In an era of deep racial divisions, mixed-origin Lindbergh united the country.
C. He used his public persona to advance political causes such as restrictions on immigration.
D. In an age of mass society, his individual accomplishment was a sign of hope
D. In an age of mass society, his individual accomplishment was a sign of hope
Exp. To Americans ambivalent about mass society and anxious about being subordinated to bureaucracy and technology, Charles Lindbergh was a sign of hope
Which of the following best assesses the outcome of the 1920 election?
A. Republicans preserved their majority in Congress, but did not gain the presidency.
B. Republicans gained control of the White House and both Houses of Congress
C. The Republican presidency was meaningless since Congress was split evenly between Democrats and Republicans.
D. Republicans gained control of the presidency, but Congress remained a Democratic stronghold.
B. Republicans gained control of the White House and both Houses of Congress
Exp. After eight years of Democratic rule, Republicans gained control of the White House and both houses of Congress. Fifty years of reform gave way to eight years of cautious governing
By the end of the decade, how many giant corporations controlled almost half of the corporate assets in America?
A. five hundred
B. two hundred
C. one thousand
D. twenty
B. two hundred
Exp. Mellon’s tax policies combined with Hoover’s “associationalism” helped to concentrate wealth in the hands of fewer individuals and corporations. By the end of the decade, two hundred giant corporations controlled almost half the corporate assets in America
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
“Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table/ When company comes./ Nobody’ll dare say to me/ ‘Eat in the kitchen,’/ Then./ Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am/ And be ashamed—/ I, too, am America”
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Langston Hughes
C. Sinclair Lewis
D. F. Scott Fiztgerald
E. Gertrude Stein
B. Langston Hughes
The most celebrated public event of the fundamentalist-modernist conflict was ______, which resulted in ______.
A. passage of the Eighteenth Amendment; a failed experiment in prohibiting the use of alcohol
B. the election of 1928; the defeat of Catholicism
C. the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan; restrictions on immigration
D. the Scopes trial; a guilty verdict and a $100 fine
D. the Scopes trial; a guilty verdict and a $100 fine
What was the average economic growth rate per annum between 1922 and 1927?
A. 2 percent
B. 7 percent
C. 4 percent
D. 3 percent
B. 7 percent
Exp. Between 1922 and 1927 the economy grew by 7 percent a year—the largest peacetime rate ever
The automobile was to the 1920s what the railroad had been to the nineteenth century, in that
A. Americans made heroes out of automakers like Ford and Sloan, as they had the railroad builders.
B. automobile production relied on earlier forms of corporate strategies.
C. it was both a powerful catalyst to economic growth and a symbol for the age
D. the government regulated it strictly.
C. it was both a powerful catalyst to economic growth and a symbol for the age
Popular film stars of the 1920s included all of the following except:
A. Charlie Chaplin
B. Rudolph Valentino
C. John Wayne
D. Mary Pickford
E. Douglas Fairbanks
C. John Wayn
The Teapot Dome scandal involved
A. Harding’s Secretary of State publicly ridiculing religious fundamentalists who had voted heavily for Republicans.
B. President Harding getting caught drinking liquor, playing cards, and entertaining prostitutes in the White House.
C. Harding’s Treasurer Andrew Mellon running his own illegal ring of speakeasies.
D. the Interior Secretary Albert Fall selling access to oil in the naval reserves for personal profit.
D. the Interior Secretary Albert Fall selling access to oil in the naval reserves for personal profit
Exp. Harding had appointed Albert Fall as Interior Secretary. In 1922, he was convicted of accepting bribes for secretly leasing naval oil reserves at Elk Hill, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming, to private oil companies
The former presidential candidate who became a leading spokesman against the theory of evolution during the 1920s was
A. Woodrow Wilson
B. Andrew Mellon
C. William McAdoo
D. William Jennings Bryan
D. William Jennings Bryan
In what novel did Sinclair Lewis create a scathing portrait of life in a small midwestern town?
A. Main Street
B. The Great Gatsby
C. The Sun Also Rises
D. The Waste Land
A. Main Street
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
“We believe that the black people should have a country of their own where they should be given the fullest opportunity to develop politically, socially and industrially. The black people should not be encouraged to remain in white people’s countries and expect to be Presidents . . .”
A. Sinclair Lewis
B. Marcus Garvey
C. Bessie Smith
D. Langston Hughes
E. Alain Locke
B. Marcus Garvey
What new style of music that fused soulfulness and syncopated rhythms was born in the roaring 20s?
A. ragtime
B. rhythm and blues
C. Dixieland
D. jazz
D. jazz
Identify the author of the following primary source quote:
“Our goal is build an automobile for every purpose and every purse.”
A. Calvin Coolidge
B. Sinclair Lewis
C. Alfred Sloan
D. Henry Ford
C. Alfred Sloan
