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Roaring Twenties

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name for the 1920s, because of the popularity of jazz-a new type of American music that combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtime

a)

Flappers

b)

Jazz Age

c)

Great Migration

d)

Teapot Dome

2.

The _____ _______ is the fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life.

(a)  

3.

Part of the "lost generation" of American modernists, her Paris apartment was a pilgrimage site for authors, painters, etc. (incl. Picasso, Hemingway, and others).

a)

Gertrude Stein

b)

Ethel Waters

c)

Zelda Fitzgerald

d)

Zora Neale Hurston

4.

American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.

a)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

b)

WEB DuBois

c)

Ethel Waters

d)

Duke Ellington

5.

Langston Hughes is:

a)

African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music.

b)

African American pianist, composer, arranger, and band leader from New Orleans.

c)

African American writer who wanted to save African American folklore. She traveled across the South collecting stories.

d)

Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI.

6.

What is the first name of Fitzgerald's wife? She was an artist and flapper who challenged traditional values in the 1920's.

(a)  

7.

An artist from New Orleans who bridged the gap between the piano styles of ragtime and jazz, and was the first important jazz composer.

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Ethel Waters

c)

Jelly Roll Morton

d)

Duke Ellington

8.

A Norwegian expressionist artist who is most famous for "The Scream."

a)

Gertrude Stein

b)

Pablo Picasso

c)

Salvador Dali

d)

Edvard Munch

9.

Explain how the assembly line works.

4 lines
10.

A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company.

a)

Teapot Dome

b)

Red Scare

c)

Flappers

d)

Great Migration

11.

What was the Great Migration?

4 lines
12.

What is F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous book called?

4 lines
13.

Explain what is meant by "the Lost Generation."

4 lines
14.

Describe one artistic work (painting, song, or book) you learned about from your classmates' presentations. Explain it briefly and tell what you thought of it.

4 lines
15.

One person or concept I want to know more about from the 1920s is...

4 lines