Unit 6 - Jazz Era & Mass Culture of the 1920s

Multiple Choice

What does the sign in the image indicate about the 18th Amendment?

• It allows intoxicating liquor

• It prohibits intoxicating liquor

• It encourages the consumption of liquor

• It has no effect on liquor consumption

Multiple Choice

The Roaring Twenties were characterized by —

• Internment camps, the rationing of goods, and the first use of an atomic bomb.

• Bank failures, the New Deal, and bread lines.

• Installment plans, Prohibition, and flappers.

• Brinkmanship, McCarthyism, and a policy of containment.

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Washington Naval Conference held in 1921 and 1922?

• To promote naval disarmament

• To increase naval power

• To establish new territories

• To form military alliances

Multiple Choice

Which 1920 event resulted in the deportation of over 5000 suspected anarchists and leftists?

• The Red Scare

• The Palmer Raids

• The Espionage Act

• The Communist Purge

Multiple Choice

Many people felt that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were found guilty of murder because

• They were Italian immigrants and anarchists.

• They were German immigrants sympathetic to socialism.

• They were known criminals from the slums of Boston.

• They were witnessed fleeing the scene of the crime.

Multiple Choice

Analyze the impact of nativism and the Ku Klux Klan on American society in the 1920s.

• They promoted racial equality

• They supported immigration

• They fostered racial and ethnic discrimination

• They encouraged cultural diversity

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Palmer Raids?

• to find and deport illegal immigrants

• to break the power of the Ku Klux Klan

• to identify and punish suspected communists

• to undermine the Civil Rights movement

Multiple Choice

Who was the biggest gangster in Chicago in the 1920s?

• Al Capone

• Bugs Moran

• Johnny Torrio

• Lucky Luciano

Multiple Choice

Who was the biggest rival of Al Capone?

• Bugs Moran

• Johnny Torrio

• Lucky Luciano

• Frank Nitti

Multiple Choice

In the 1920’s speakeasies became popular in America as a result of

• Prohibition of alcohol

• Billboard advertising

• New trends In music

• New immigration patterns

Multiple Choice

Which amendment banned alcohol?

• 18th
• 19th
• 20th
• 21st

Multiple Choice

The creation of Prohibition had the unintentional effect of

• Increasing the popularity of television and motion pictures.

• Causing increased popularity of radical groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.

• Causing people to turn to “harder” drugs such as heroin and cocaine.

• Creating a network of organized crime that illegally supplied people with alcohol.

Multiple Choice

After the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee:

• Fundamentalist religion remained the undisputed dominant force in American spiritual life

• John Scopes was sentenced to serve time in jail

• Christians found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the revelations of religion with modern science

• The gap between theology and biology began to close

• The conflict between evolution and creationism was finally settled in America

Multiple Choice

The prosecuting attorney in the Scopes trial was

• William Jennings Bryan
• Charles Darwin
• Clarence Darrow
• Aimee Semple McPherson

Multiple Choice

Protestant movement that was grounded in literal, or non-symbolic interpretation of the Bible, that led to the trial of John T. Scopes being brought under charges for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution.

• Evolutionism

• Fundamentalism

• Creationism

• Interpretationism

Multiple Choice

The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 had to do with teaching of Fundamentalism and ______.

• school

• Evolution

• life

• religion

Multiple Choice

Who became the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927?

• Babe Ruth
• Charles Lindbergh
• Amelia Earhart

Multiple Choice

A newer invention that allowed for travel to the city and vacation, increased mobility allowing for people to travel to work miles away from where they lives, and a new status symbol that showed success of the free enterprise system.

• Airplanes

• Automobiles

• Advertisements

• The radio

Multiple Choice

Invention that lured consumers to buy more goods and obtain credit through installment plans.

• Radio

• Advertisements

• Automobile

• Prohibition

Multiple Choice

What role did advertising and credit play in stimulating consumption during the post-war recession?

• They had no impact

• They decreased consumption

• They stimulated consumption

• They only affected real wages

Multiple Choice

What significant event did Charles Lindbergh achieve in 1927?

• First solo flight across the Atlantic

• First flight to the moon

• First flight around the world

• First flight to the North Pole

Multiple Choice

What significant development in film occurred with the release of "Jazz Singer" in 1927?

• It was the first color film

• It was the first movie with sound

• It was the first animated film

• It was the first documentary film

Multiple Choice

What was the significance of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s?

• It was a period of economic decline

• It instilled interest in African American culture

• It led to the end of jazz music

• It was a movement for women's rights

Multiple Choice

What did the "New Negro" represent for African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance?

• an aim to integrate into white society

• a radical break with a past of discrimination

• a rejection of African American cultural heritage

• an answer to economic hardships of African Americans

Multiple Choice

What did the presence of white jazz musicians and composers suggest about American society?

• Jazz did not originate in African American communities.

• White people dominated the jazz scene in the United States.

• Jazz helped to bridge the races and bring Americans together.

• African Americans were superior musicians who gained more fame.

Multiple Choice

What does the phrase "I, too, sing America" signify in the context of the poem?

• It represents unity among all Americans.

• It highlights the struggles of African Americans.

• It emphasizes the importance of cultural diversity.

• It suggests that America is only for white people.

Multiple Choice

Which inference about the 1920s is supported by this illustration?

• Women confronted discrimination in employment and education.

• Women challenged traditional attitudes and social norms.

• Reform organizations targeted women’s issues.

• Mass media reflected trends popular in rural communities.

Multiple Choice

What does the term 'The Lost Generation' refer to in the context of literature?

• A group of disillusioned artists and writers

• A literary movement focused on realism

• A term for post-war optimism

• A genre of science fiction

Multiple Choice

Part of the "lost generation" of American modernists, her Paris apartment was a pilgrimage site for authors, painters, etc. (incl. Picasso, Hemingway, and others).

• Gertrude Stein

• Ethel Waters

• Zelda Fitzgerald

• Zora Neale Hurston

Poll

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