American modernist literature

The American Literature Modernist movement occurred approximately between_________________.  

• 1810-1840
• 1310-1340
• 1910-1945
• 1910-2000

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The era in which Modernism took place is marked by two significant historical events:

• The Dust Bowl, The Cold War

• Great Depression, Vietnam War

• The Civil War, Prohibition

• World War 1, Great Depression

The era in which Modernism took place involved young Americans losing their ____________.

• innocence

• minds

• financial stability

• motivation

The Modernists agreed with the traditional American Dream.

• True
• False

Modernism poetry sought to create new ways of seeing and thinking- much like a painter named ____________.

• Michealangelo

• Bob Ross

• Grant Wood

• Pablo Picasso

Modernist writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald revolutionized the way in which people thought about

• the stock market

• the Great Depression

• history

• the American Dream

The writers of the Harlem Renaissance were primarily _____________________.

• Japanese American

• Irish American

• Italian American

• African American

Who is in the picture?

• John Steinbeck

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Eugene O'Neill

• Ernest Hemingway

Who is in the picture?

• John Steinbeck

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Eugene O'Neill

• Ernest Hemingway

Who is in this painting by Modernist artist Pablo Picasso?

• Gertrude Stein

• Charlotte Mew

• Zora Neale Huston

• Zelda Fitzgerald