American Modernism - Social Background & Features

The modernist movement encouraged American writers to ____.

• reflect traditional Christian beliefs in their work

• set stories in the South or Midwest

• reject traditional themes and subjects

•  avoid the influence of European writers

Which of the following was the damage as a result of the Great Depression?

• 500,000 people became homeless

• 15 million Americans were unemployed

• All banks were shut down

• All of the above are correct

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What did the Lost Generation refer to?

• Pessimistic authors

• Poets and writers who came of age during WW1

• Rebelling teenagers

•  A&C are correct

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The economy of the United States became flourish during the 1920s but the prosperity came to a sudden halt in 1935.

• True

• False

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___________ was a time when large numbers of African Americans left the South.

• The Major Exodus

• The Big Move

• The Shift North

• The Great Migration

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Which event served as the catalyst for America’s entrance into World War II?

•  The Prohibition

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Adolf Hitler invaded Poland

• The remained tensions and hostilities after the WWI

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Which of the following is correct about the Jazz Age?

• Live performance of Jazz became tremendously popular

• It was considered the era of wealth

• An underground industry of bootlegging emerged

• All the above are correct

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 __________sparked a shift of the United States’s economy from its agricultural roots to an industry-based economy.

• WWII

• The Jazz Age

• WWI

• The Great Migration

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Who first popularized the term “Lost Generation”?

• Ernest Hemingway

• Thomas Stearns Eliot

• Francis Scott Fitzgerald

• Richard Wright

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What major event acted as the drive for the U.S to invent new technologies, including nuclear bombs?

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

• WWII

• The Great Migration

• Prohibition

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