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The Roaring 20s Quizz

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Applied mass production techniques to manufacture automobiles

a)

Chevrolet

b)

Henry Ford

c)

John D. Rockafellar

d)

Albert Einstein

2.

the rapid, large scale manufacture of identical products

a)

scientific management

b)

mass production

c)

horizontal integration

d)

industrialization

3.

automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable on the mass market

a)

Model T

b)

Model Z

c)

Model P

d)

Model E

4.

analysis of a manufacturing process to improve speed and efficiency

a)

mass production

b)

scientific management

c)

small scale production

d)

Henry Ford's Plan

5.

a period of rising prices in the stock market

a)

balanced market

b)

boom market

c)

stock market

d)

bull market

6.

buying stock on credit by paying a percentage up front and borrowing the rest of the cost of the stock

a)

buying on margin

b)

line of credit

c)

bank notes

d)

financial bonds

7.

trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional religious ideas

a)

modernism

b)

fundamentalism

c)

conservativism

d)

liberalism

8.

movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles

a)

modernism

b)

fundamentalism

c)

conservativism

d)

liberalism

9.

1925 trial of a Tennessee schoolteacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution

a)

Scopes Trial

b)

John's Trial

c)

Tennessee v. Darwin

d)

Evolution Trial

10.

a formula to determine how many immigrants could enter the United States annually from a given country

a)

American System

b)

Quota System

c)

Immigration System

d)

Deportation System

11.

a group violently opposed to African Americans, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants

a)

McCarthyists

b)

Ku Klux Klan

c)

Jim Crows

d)

Socialists

12.

a ban on the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol

a)

temperance movement

b)

prohibition

c)

18th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

13.

a 1919 Constitutional Amendment that established Prohibition

a)

18th Amendment

b)

19th Amendment

c)

20th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

14.

law that gave the government power to enforce the 18th Amendment

a)

Volstead Act

b)

Prohibition Act

c)

Temperance Act

d)

Alcohol Act

15.

1st person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean

a)

Charles Lindbergh

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Ernest Hemingway

d)

Langston Hughes

16.

a young woman in the 1920s who rejected traditional values and dress

a)

conservatives

b)

daughters of the American Revolution

c)

prohibitionist

d)

flapper

17.

psychologist who suggested that people are driven by unconscious desires

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

Ernest Hemingway

d)

Henry Ford

18.

author of The Great Gatsby and other novels, who questioned the idea of the American dream

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

Ernest Hemingway

d)

Henry Ford

19.

author of A Farewell to Arms and other works who also questioned the American Dream and developed his own writing style to reflect his views

a)

Sigmund Freud

b)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

Ernest Hemingway

d)

Henry Ford

20.

founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the "Back to Africa" movement who promoted black pride

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Malcom X

d)

Louis Armstrong

21.

American musical art form based on improvisation that came to represent the Roaring Twenties

a)

Classical

b)

Jazz

c)

Country

d)

Swing

22.

trumpet player who influenced the development of Jazz

a)

Louis Armstrong

b)

Jesse Owens

c)

Bessie Smith

d)

Marcus Garvey

23.

blues singer known as the "Empress of the Blues"

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

Louis Armstrong

c)

Gladys Knight

d)

Bessie Smith

24.

the flowering of African American arts and literature in 1920s New York

a)

Jazz Age

b)

Harlem Renaissance

c)

Blues Age

d)

Civil Rights Movement

25.

Harlem Renaissance writer who showed the struggles of ordinary African Americans

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Bessie Smith

c)

Claude McKay

d)

Zora Neale Hurston

26.

Harlem Renaissance writer who celebrated African American culture and life

a)

Claude McKay

b)

Marcus Garvey

c)

Booker T Washington

d)

Langston Hughes

27.

book written by Victor H. Green that told African Americans where the safe places to travel and do business in the south were

a)

The Green Book

b)

Jim Crow Book

c)

Scarlett Letter

d)

The Black Book