Chapter 24 The Jazz Age

Question 1

Hemingway used the phrase “lost generation” as the epigraph in:

Answer 1

The Sun Also Rises (1926).

Question 2

T or F: The success of mass production made mass consumption less important than ever.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Which amendment to the Constitution is known as the Prohibition amendment?

Answer 3

Eighteenth

Question 4

Marcus Garvey:

Answer 4

said blacks should return to Africa.

Question 5

The “House That Ruth Built,” is also known as:

Answer 5

Yankee Stadium.

Question 6

Modernists in art and literature recognized:

Answer 6

new technologies and embraced scientific discovery.

Question 7

The Harlem Renaissance:

Answer 7

sought to rediscover black folk culture.

Question 8

Political and social radicalism arose after World War I because:

Answer 8

postwar culture was entering an era of bewildering change.

Question 9

The novel This Side of Paradise concerned:

Answer 9

modernist student life at Princeton.

Question 10

T or F: Albert Einstein was a member of Al Capone’s gang in Chicago.

Answer 10

False

Question 11

T or F: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

T or F: During the 1920s, the ideas of scientists about the nature of the universe inspired modernist artists to try new techniques.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

In 1920, how many cars were registered in the United States?

Answer 13

8 million

Question 14

T or F: The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan, urban America against the values of an insular, rural America.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

T or F: Jazz music inspired rural youth to remember their culture’s musical roots.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

T or F: Flappers was the slang word for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

T or F: The major American prophets of modernist literature lived in Europe.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

The Roaring Twenties was dubbed the “Jazz Age” by:

Answer 18

F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Question 19

Margaret Sanger’s initial efforts to educate the public about birth control and responsibility were aimed at:

Answer 19

lower class women.

Question 20

Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., a St. Louis–based mail pilot, made the first solo transatlantic flight, traveling from New York to Paris in:

Answer 20

1927

Question 21

The movement of southern blacks to the North:

Answer 21

was called the “Great Migration.”