American Fiction Between The Wars

Question 1

My Antonia was the final book in Willa Cather's Pioneer trilogy

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Who painted Incense of a New Church?

Accepted Answer

Charles Demuth

Question 3

Who's paintings reflected the social attitudes of the 1930's?

Accepted Answer

John Steuart Curry

Question 4

Which musician was nicknamed Swoonatra?

Accepted Answer

Frank Sinatra

Question 5

What aspect of this time period was NOT an influence in writings, paintings or music

Accepted Answer

Civil War

Question 6

Which writer changed his last name in order to enlist in the British Royal Flying Corps

Accepted Answer

William Faulkner

Question 7

Who was the first American to win a the Nobel Peace Prize for literature

Accepted Answer

Sinclair Lewis

Question 8

What year did this movement first take place?

Accepted Answer

1914

Question 9

Who debuted on broadway at the age of 62?

Accepted Answer

Peggy Lee

Question 10

What art styles did Weber introduce?

Accepted Answer

Fauvism & Cubism

Question 11

Who was capable of singing in three different voice octaves?

Accepted Answer

Ella Fitzgerald

Question 12

Who spent their time off from writing mainly in the outdoors? (fishing, game hunting, etc.)

Accepted Answer

Ernest Hemingway

Question 13

What were some of the "old" elements of Fiction that newer Fiction artists drew from?

Accepted Answer

Naturalism & Realism

Question 14

Who was one of the authors from the "old fiction" era that inspired the new age of Fiction?

Accepted Answer

Willa Cather

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