Quiz 25-3

In the realm of science, the conventional wisdom that the universe was governed by laws that the scientific method could ultimately uncover was challenged by:

• Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg

• Isaac Newton and Francis Bacon

• Max Planck and Neils Bohr

• T.S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein

Modernists in art and literature came to believe that

• human reason ruled all of nature

• science and art had no connection

• art, in the end, had rules that should be obeyed

• the subconscious is more interesting and more potent than the traditional focus on reason

The horrors of WWI accelerated

• the need to rearm

• the formation of the United Nations

• rebellion in the United Staets

• modernism in the arts

The "Lost Generation" refers to:

• the countless births prevented by the widespread acceptance and use of birth control in the post-war years

• a whole generation of young American men who died in World War I

• the many musicians who had forsaken their own ethnic roots to experiment in jazz

• a group of authors who had, in the wake of the war, lost respect for traditional American cultural morals or values and embraced self-destructive behaviors and stories

Which of the following is true of American literature in the 1920s?

• Far more people read uplifting and optimistic poetry and prose than the despairing writings of the "Lost Generation"

• F. Scott Fitzgerald was considered untalented and unimpressive by most American readers

• Traditional Americans preferred Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot to Zane Grey and Carl Sandburg

• The prevailing tone of the most popular literature was despair and disillusionment