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WorksheetsCanada: Roaring 20's
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What should "nice women" not want to do?
a)
Smoke
b)
Drink
c)
Vote
d)
Dance
2.
Those who identified themselves as the "Canada's national school of painters."
a)
The Group of Seven
b)
The Impressionists
c)
Landscape School of Artists
d)
Abstractionists
3.
The most popular car of the 1920's.
a)
Model A
b)
Model T
c)
Model M
d)
Model C
4.
What were women declared to be in 1929?
a)
Incompetent
b)
Prohibited
c)
Intelligent
d)
Persons
5.
When was "Black Tuesday"?
a)
October 29, 1929
b)
October 19, 1929
c)
October 28, 1929
d)
October 9, 1929
6.
A new, independent woman emerged in the 1920's. What name was she given?
a)
Bobsy
b)
Blondie
c)
Flapper
d)
Prancer
7.
Which gangster, who became famous during prohibition, had a house in Kemptville, Ontario?
a)
Rocco Perri
b)
Bugs" Moran
c)
Dion O'Banion
d)
Al Capone
8.
In what year did the Maple Leafs receive their name?
a)
1923
b)
1925
c)
1926
d)
1927
9.
Which Canadian actress was nicknamed "America's Sweetheart"?
a)
Jane Crawford
b)
Mary Pickford
c)
Julia Ormond
d)
Paula Diamond
10.
Who was the most famous man in Canada in 1923?
a)
Al Capone
b)
Conn Smythe
c)
Frederick Banting
d)
Tom Thomson
11.
What killed more people than WWI?
a)
Spanish Flu
b)
Pneumonia
c)
Tuberculosis
d)
Syphilis
12.
What term means to "be afraid of or dislike foreigners, those who are different"?
a)
xenophobia
b)
forephobia
c)
differphobia
d)
ethniphobia
13.
What term refers to the banning of the sale of alcohol?
a)
temperance
b)
privy
c)
suffrage
d)
prohibition
14.
How long did the first flight across Canada take?
a)
24 hours
b)
36 hours
c)
45 hours
d)
52 hours
15.
For what invention did Sir Frederick Banting receive the Nobel Prize?
a)
Insulin
b)
Penicillin
c)
Tylenol
d)
Whiskey
16.
For every 1 refrigerator owned in 1921, how many were owned by 1929?
a)
82
b)
134
c)
167
d)
203
17.
What was invented in the 1920's that made stockings an item that any woman could buy?
a)
rayon
b)
nylon
c)
silk
d)
satin
18.
Which of the following was NOT a dance move popular in the 1920's?
a)
Charleston
b)
The Bunny Hop
c)
The Turkey Trot
d)
The Jitterbug
19.
Who invented the battery-less radio?
a)
William Bell
b)
Ted Rogers
c)
Robert Lindy
d)
Peter Charles
20.
In what year did the Chinese Exclusion Act (banned all Chinese immigrants except diplomats, merchants, and students) get passed?
a)
1921
b)
1922
c)
1923
d)
1924
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