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Coach D's 1920's Test

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A young woman of the 1920’s who defied traditional ideas of proper dress and behavior was called a:

a)

Flapper

b)

Suffragette

c)

Debutante

d)

Gibson Girl

2.

The Great Migration refers to the movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the early 20th century.

a)

A movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the early 20th century.

b)

A migration of Europeans to America in the 19th century.

c)

The relocation of Native Americans to reservations in the 18th century.

d)

A mass exodus of people from Europe to Australia in the 20th century.

3.

Who represented the prosecution and was a three-time candidate for president and defended creationism and a fundamentalist Christian point of view?

a)

Clarence Darrow

b)

William Jennings Bryan

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

Woodrow Wilson

4.

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that took place in which area?

a)

Harlem, New York City

b)

Paris, France

c)

Los Angeles, California

d)

Chicago, Illinois

5.

What two mediums created a new popular culture in the 1920’s?

a)

Radio and Movies

b)

Television and Internet

c)

Newspapers and Magazines

d)

Books and Theater

6.

Bessie Smith was from which place?

a)

Chattanooga, Tennessee

b)

New York, New York

c)

Chicago, Illinois

d)

Los Angeles, California

7.

What hate group had a renewal in the twenties that became revitalized in the south and the mid west?

a)

Ku Klux Klan

b)

Black Panther Party

c)

Neo-Nazi

d)

Aryan Brotherhood

8.

What pilot was never found as she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean trying to be the first to fly around the world?

a)

Amelia Earhart

b)

Charles Lindbergh

c)

Howard Hughes

d)

Bessie Coleman

9.

What occupation did Helen Wills have?

a)

Tennis Player

b)

Doctor

c)

Engineer

d)

Artist

10.

Who represented John Scopes in the trial over teaching evolution in 1925?

a)

Clarence Darrow

b)

William Jennings Bryan

c)

H.G. Wells

d)

Thomas Edison

11.

What type of music became popular during this time period in America?

a)

Jazz

b)

Classical

c)

Rock

d)

Hip Hop

12.

What amendment was the abolition of making alcohol?

a)

18th Amendment

b)

19th Amendment

c)

20th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

13.

Who was the well known ex-ball player and ordained minister that was a fundamentalist that criticized the changing attitudes of the 1920’s reflecting the rural American Ideas?

a)

Billy Sunday

b)

Babe Ruth

c)

Charles Spurgeon

d)

Dwight L. Moody

14.

The first cartoon that introduced Mickey Mouse was called?

a)

Steamboat Willie

b)

Plane Crazy

c)

The Gallopin' Gaucho

d)

Fantasia

15.

Who was the first dashing leading man of romantic films and unexpectedly died in 1926?

a)

Rudolph Valentino

b)

Charlie Chaplin

c)

Douglas Fairbanks

d)

John Barrymore

16.

George Gershwin was known for:

a)

composing Jazz music

b)

writing novels

c)

painting landscapes

d)

sculpting statues

17.

Who wrote The Great Gatsby?

a)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

b)

Ernest Hemingway

c)

Mark Twain

d)

J.D. Salinger

18.

A liquor smuggler in the 1920’s was called a:

a)

Bootlegger

b)

Moonshiner

c)

Rum-runner

d)

Speakeasy

19.

Who was the first film star who was a comedian whose signature character was a tramp in a derby hat and ragged clothes?

a)

Charlie Chaplin

b)

Buster Keaton

c)

Harold Lloyd

d)

Fatty Arbuckle

20.

Who was a prominent poet that was produced from the Harlem renaissance who wrote of black defiance and hope?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Claude McKay

c)

Zora Neale Hurston

d)

Countee Cullen