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A.H. Chapter 21

Total questions: 46

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

the period from 1920-1933 during which the 18th Amendment forbid the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages

a)

prohibition

b)

speakeasy

c)

bootlegger

d)

fundamentalism

2.

hidden saloons and night clubs

a)

prohibition

b)

speakeasy

c)

bootlegger

d)

fundementalism

3.

a person who smuggled alcoholic beverages

a)

prohibition

b)

speakeasy

c)

bootlegger

d)

fundamentalism

4.

the Protestant movement grounded in a literal or non-symbolic interpretation of the Bible

a)

prohibition

b)

speakeasy

c)

bootlegger

d)

fundamentalism

5.

the trial lawyer the ACLU hired to defend Scopes

a)

Clarence Darrow

b)

William Jennings Bryan

c)

Georgia O'Keaffe

d)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

6.

was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society

a)

Bible Trial

b)

Evolution Trial

c)

Scopes Trial

d)

Listerine Trial

7.

an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day

a)

socialite

b)

flapper

c)

smacker

d)

Charleston dancer

8.

a set of principles of granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women

a)

sexism

b)

high society standard

c)

backwards standard

d)

double standard

9.

a small-town pilot who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Charles A. Lindbergh

c)

James Weldon Johnson

d)

Louis Armstrong

10.

a concert music composer who merge traditional elements with American Jazz

a)

George Gershwin

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

Louis Armstong

d)

Besse Smith

11.

produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York

a)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

b)

Sinclair Lewis

c)

Zora Neale Hurston

d)

Georgia O'Keaffe

12.

the first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature

a)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

b)

Langston Hughes

c)

Sinclair Lewis

d)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

13.

author who wrote "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gasby"

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Sinclair Lewis

c)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

d)

James Weldon Johnson

14.

wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence an freedom from traditional constraints

a)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

b)

Willa Cather

c)

Zora Neale Hurston

d)

Bessie Smith

15.

author who wrote "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms"

a)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

b)

James Weldon Johnson

c)

Claude McKay

d)

Ernest Hemingway

16.

a women who spent time with a traveling theater company and attended Howard University, she ended up in New York where she struggled to the top of African-American literary society

a)

Edna St. Vincent millay

b)

Zora neale Hurston

c)

Bessie Smith

d)

Georgia O'Keaffer

17.

a poet and lawyer who lead the NAACP and focused on anti-lynching bills

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

James Weldon Johnson

d)

Ernest Hemingway

18.

an immigrant from Jamaica who believed that African Americans should build a separate society

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

Louis Armstong

c)

Sinclair Lewis

d)

James Weldon Johnson

19.

a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture

a)

Harlem Renaissance

b)

Jazz Renaissance

c)

Charleston Renaissance

d)

Women's Renaissance

20.

a novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant whose militant verses urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination

a)

Louis Armstrong

b)

Paul Robeson

c)

Sinclair Lewis

d)

Claude McKay

21.

Missouri born person who was the movement's best-known poet whose poems described the difficult lives of working-class African Americans

a)

Paul Robeson

b)

Langston Hughes

c)

James Weldon Johnson

d)

Claude McKay

22.

the son of a one-time slave became a major dramatic actor

a)

Paul Robeson

b)

Duke Elliington

c)

Louis Armstrong

d)

Claude McKay

23.

trumpet player who is famous for his astounding sense of rhythm and his ability to imporvise

a)

Duke Ellington

b)

Louis Armstrong

c)

Paul Robeson

d)

Claude McKay

24.

a jazz pianist and composer who led his ten-piece orchestra at the Cotton Club

a)

Louis Armstrong

b)

Paul Robeson

c)

Duke Ellington

d)

Georgia O'Keaffe

25.

a female blues singer who was perhaps the outstanding vocalist of the decade

a)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

b)

Zora Neale Hurston

c)

Bessie Smith

d)

Georgia O'Keaffe

26.

A negative effect that accompanied women in the 1920's

a)

pressure of juggling work and family

b)

their husbands never let them go anywhere

c)

they had trouble sleeping

27.

What was the most powerful communications medium to emerge in the 1920's?

a)

televison

b)

morse code

c)

microwave

d)

radio

28.

When was the first movie released with sound?

a)

1927

b)

1921

c)

1915

d)

1923

29.

What was the first movie released with sound?

a)

Blade Trinity

b)

The Jazz Singer

c)

Harry the Ape

d)

The Babbitt

30.

Who celebrated the simple, dignified lives of people such as the immigrant farmers of Nebraska in "My Antonia"?

a)

Ernest Hemingway

b)

Willa Cather

c)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

d)

Edith Wharton

31.

The 18th Amendment dealt with

a)

right to bear arms.

b)

right to vote for blacks.

c)

prohibition.

d)

freedom of speech.

32.

How many speakeasies did Al Capone own?

a)

2500

b)

10

c)

10,000

d)

350

33.

What city was the home of Al Capone's criminal empire?

a)

New York

b)

Chicago

c)

Las Vegas

d)

New Jersey

34.

In 1922, how many radio stations were in operation in the United States?

a)

175

b)

300

c)

600

d)

500

35.

What were some slang expressions in the 1920's

a)

screwy

b)

cranked

c)

cool

d)

ritzy

e)

crush

36.

Which of the following was NOT a song in the 1920's?

a)

Blue Skies

b)

Blue Sued Shoes

c)

Makin Whoopie

37.

Who was the first woman to swim the English Channel?

a)

Amelia Earhart

b)

Gertrude Ederle

c)

Jackie Robinson

d)

Helen Wills

38.

Who founded the NNL (Negro National League)

a)

Andrew "Rube" Foster

b)

Jackie Robinson

c)

Babe Ruth

39.

Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlatnic?

a)

Helen Wills

b)

Amelia Earhart

c)

Georgia O'Keaffe

d)

Charles Lindbergh

40.

What year and accomplishing what feat did Babe Ruth become a legend?

a)

1927 - played two different positions on the team

b)

1928 - throwing 60 strike outs

c)

1928 - hit 65 home runs

d)

1927 - hit 60 home runs

41.

Whose nickname was "Little Miss Poker Face"?

a)

Lucielle Ball

b)

Helen Wills

c)

Gertrude Ederle

d)

Amelia Earhart

42.

What year was the first transcontinental airmail service in the U.S.?

a)

1930

b)

1920

c)

1919

d)

1929

43.

Amelia Earhart flew from ___ to ___.

a)

New Foundland; Ireland

b)

New York; Paris

c)

Cleveland; Ireland

44.

Disney's first animated movie was

a)

Mickey meets Minnie

b)

Steamboat Mickey

c)

Steamboat Billie

d)

Steamboat Willie

45.

A jazz pianist and composer, known as _____, led his ten-piece orchestra at the Cotton Club.

a)

Paul Robeson

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

Louis Armstrong

d)

Claude McKay

46.

September 22, 1927 50 million Americans sat listening to their radios to the fight between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, who won.

a)

Jack Dempsey

b)

Gene Tunney