Question 1

The best-selling novelist of the 1920s was:

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A)   Gertrude Stein
B)   T. S. Eliot
C)   Zane Grey
D)   e. e. cummings
E)   Ernest HemingwayF) A) and B)
G) A) and D)

Question 2

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Which one of the following is associated with Dayton, Tennessee?

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A)   Paul Gauguin
B)   F.Scott Fitzgerald
C)   the lynching of three Italian anarchists
D)   Ernest Hemingway
E)   the Scopes trialF) B) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 4

All of the following could be associated with flappers EXCEPT:

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A)   bobbed hair
B)   Victorian values
C)   smoking and drinking
D)   swearing
E)   pettingF) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 5

Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg were members of Al Capone's gang in Chicago.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Trace the rise of fundamentalism in the 1920s. Show how this issue led to the Scopes trial and how that case was decided.

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Question 7

Describe the defensive temper of the 1920s. What factors contributed to it?

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The defensive temper of the 1920s was ch...

Question 8

Conservative moralists saw the flappers as just another sign of:

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A)   progress
B)   equality
C)   women's rights
D)   a degenerating society
E)   the work of the devilF) D) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 9

Ernest Hemingway wrote of:

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A)   rational people dedicated to traditional values
B)   "real" life punctuated by the doomed, war-tainted love affairs of young Americans
C)   patriotic fervor among the American expatriate writers in Paris
D)   masculinity and a desperate search for life
E)   hope and happiness in America's heartlandF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 10

What were the political and cultural manifestations of a new sense of identity among blacks in the 1920s?

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In the 1920s, there were several politic...

Question 11

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Gertrude Stein
T. S. Eliot
Miriam Ferguson
Marsden Hartley
James Weldon Johnson
William J. Simmons
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Werner Heisenberg
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Question 12

The NAACP emphasized:

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A)   legal action against discrimination
B)   the formation of a black political party
C)   vocational and technical education
D)   Garvey's concept of social and political separation of blacks
E)   strictly black membershipF) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 13

The Universal Negro Improvement Association:

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A)   sponsored black artists and writers
B)   was led by Marcus Garvey
C)   promoted Booker T. Washington's idea of racial peace through accommodation
D)   was the forerunner of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 
E)   was conceived by W.E.B. Du BoisF) C) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 14

Unlike baseball, football tended to attract more:

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A)   affluent spectators
B)   women spectators
C)   Negro spectators
D)   lower-class spectators
E)   immigrant spectatorsF) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 15

In physics, the theory of relativity was developed and explained by:

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A)   Albert Einstein
B)   Isaac Newton
C)   Max Planck
D)   Werner Heisenberg
E)   Sir Francis BaconF) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 16

How did the rise of fundamentalism in the 1920s inspire the rise of modernism?

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Question 17

How did the scientific work of Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg influence American thought?

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Question 18

The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:

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A)   favored immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
B)   encouraged Asians to immigrate to America
C)   set strict limits on immigration from Mexico
D)   rescinded the Gentlemen's Agreement accepted during Theodore Roosevelt's administration
E)   favored immigrants from northern and western EuropeF) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 19

The 1924 immigration law:

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A)   stopped the illegal flow of immigrants into the United States
B)   encouraged immigration from Japan and China
C)   continued an open-door policy, whereby almost all new arrivals would be admitted
D)   set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country
E)   restricted immigration to those from eastern EuropeF) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 20

The Scopes "monkey trial" sought to keep the theory of evolution in science classrooms in Tennessee.

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A) True 
 B)False

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