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American Synoptic Quiz #1

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1
Which of the following is not a 'novel of manners'?
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
The Virginian by Owen Wister
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
2
When was the Wall Street Crash?
October 1928
October 1927
October 1939
October 1929
3
Which of the following was not published in the 1930s?
Gone With the Wind
A Farewell to Arms
The Grapes of Wrath
The Big Sleep
4
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A jazz music ensemble who played in clubs in the 1920s in Harlem
A black intellectual and bohemian movement between 1910s - late 1930s in NY
A political party which campaigned for civil rights
An art exhibition in New York showcasing paintings by Renaissance artists
5
Which term is the belief that the USA had a divine obligation to expand its borders, spreading democracy & capitalism?
Frontierism
Manifest Destiny
The American Dream
Expansionism
6
What what the legal term that classed anyone with any degree of Black ancestry as legally Black, regardless of colour?
Jim Crow Laws
Local Colour
The One Drop Rule
Colourism
7
Which of these following American writers was not a second generation immigrant?
Mark Twain
Willa Cather
Theodore Dreiser
Nella Larsen
8
In which era was Stephen Crane writing?
WW1
The Gilded Age
The Progressive Era
The Roaring Twenties
9
Which writer explored PTSD in the aftermath of WW1 in his writing?
Jack London
John Steinbeck
Henry James
Ernest Hemingway
10
Which literary movement emerged in the aftermath of WW1?
Local Colour
Modernism
Realism
Post-modernism