World History Ch. 16 Sec. 1 Quiz

Because not everyone approved of the freewheeling lifestyle of the jazz age, some conservatives responded with

• Prohibition.
• the Harlem Renaissance.
• surrealism.
• stream of consciousness.

Which German-born physicist advanced the theories of relativity?

• Marie Curie
• Leon Blum
• Sigmund Freud
• Albert Einstein

After World War I, women in many western countries

• were given the right to work outside the home.
• gained the right to vote.
• were allowed to work in all of the same fields as men.
• began to earn equal pay for equal work.

What type of artwork was composed only of lines, colors, and shapes, sometimes with no recognizable subject matter at all?

• Flapper
• abstract
• dada
• Surreal

Literature in the postwar period reflected writers' loss of faith in

• stream of consciousness.
• surrealism.
• western civilization
• human nature.

Freud's ideas led to a method of understanding the mind called

• dada.
• Prohibition.
• surrealism.
• psychoanalysis.

Which term describes the cultural awakening during which African American writers and artists expressed their pride in their unique culture?

• stream of consciousness
• abstract
• the Harlem Renaissance
• psychoanalysis

One opposing reaction to the freedoms and looseness of morals of the jazz age was the rise of

• the artwork of the fauves.
• musicians improvising endless subtle variations in their music.
• emancipated women known as flappers.
• Christian fundamentalist movements.

Jazz was pioneered by

• Mexicans.
• African Americans
• Europeans.
• Canadians.

In the postwar atmosphere of __________, women began to work as reporters or novelists, and they became golfers and tennis players.

• speakeasies
• emancipation
• stream of consciousness
• flapper