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1
Art Deco is characterized by...
spontaneity, wild colours and shapes
distortion of reality and dream like images
a focus on commercial and pop culture, comic book style
geometric shapes, related to architecture and furniture
2
Rural societal reaction to changing values in the 1920s
Fundamentalism
Protestantism
Catholicism
Quakerism
3
From the East, where does the route 66 start
Los Angeles
Chicago
St Louis
New York
4
The
initial Crash
of the Stock Market was on
Black Monday
Black Friday
Black Thursday
Black Tuesday
5
For the first time ever, the decade of the 1920s saw most Americans living in...
the suburbs
the city
skyscrapers
farms
6
What sport did Tom Buchanan play?
golf
tennis
polo
none of the above
7
Who lives on East Egg?
Jordan
Tom and Daisy
Gatsby
Nick
8
What did Prohibition cause?
The growth of alcohol advertising on radio
Homelessness, starvation, not enough government help
A rise in drug overdoses
Organized crime and bootlegging
9
What was the effect of the assembly line on the production time of the
Model T Ford?
production time decreased dramatically producing more cars quicker
there was no effect on production time
It took 10 years for an effect to be seen on the production
production time increased causing fewer cars to be built
10
The 19th amendment in 1920 did what?
Gave African American men the right to vote
Gave women the right to vote
Made selling and drinking alcohol illegal
Made teaching evolution illegal
11
On
September 30, 1927
,
Babe Ruth calls,
and hits his----- home run of the 1927 season! A record standing for
34 years!
60th
80th
100th
70th
12
True or False: Amelia Earhart was an aviator.
False
True
13
Route 66 ends with the Santa Monica Pier, which is located in...
Kansas
California
New Mexico
Oregon
14
Where did Tom and Daisy get married?
Chicago
Louisville
New Orleans
France
15
Which class is Tom and Daisy Buchanan from?
No Money
Some Money
New Money
Old Money
16
What was the most popular music genre in the 1920s?
Swing
Jazz
Alternative
K-Pop
17
Nick and Gatsby live in what New York Suburb?
Manhattan
Brooklyn
West Egg
East Egg
18
What did Jay Gatsby and Meyer Wolfsheim Own many of?
Nightclubs
Barber shops
Convenience (drug) Stores
Dog Pounds
19
The Automobile helped to create
the suburbs
socialism
mad employees
birth rates to increase
20
The Great Gatsby takes place immediately after ______________.
World War II
The 1919 World Series
The Depression
World War I
21
What does George Wilson think about the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg?
He compares them to God's eyes--All-seeing!
He thinks they are an artistic masterpiece
He thinks they are cameras watching his business
He wants to take the billboard down
22
This was the term used for purchasing stocks with borrowed money
Consumerism
Bull Market
Margin Buying
Laissez Faire
23
What ideas does surrealism embrace?
Ordinary portraits
Neat, organized patterns
Randomness, imagination, unrealistic images
Only nature and animals
24
What were illegal bars during the prohibition called?
bootleggers
talkies
the brass rail
speakeasies
25
Which amendment passed prohibition?
21st amendment
18th amendment
22nd amendment
2nd amendment
26
What does Jordan say Gatsby wants Nick to do?
Kill Tom
Wash his car
Bring Daisy to one of Gatsby's parties
Invite Daisy over for tea and secretly invite Gatsby
27
Gatsby's real name was
Jay Carroway
James Gatz
James Gatsby
Jay Gatz
28
What was the Great Migration?
Northerners moving south
Largest Zebra migration ever recorded
The movement of African Americans from the South to the North
Americans moving out west to San Fransisco
29
What is the Red Scare?
Fear of Communist Immigrants
Fear of Democracy
An economic theory
Fear od Capitalism
30
Where did Gatsby say he graduated from?
Oxford
Harvard
Cambridge
Stanford
31
1920s Consumerism depended on what?
Installment buying (credit)
All of these
The Assembly line
Mass production
32
WHAT WAS THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE ?
A NEW YORK CITY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT in 1925
The name that was given to a new dance style
The first expansion team in Negro Baseball League
A celebration of African American Art and Literature
33
American painter, known for urban scenes & for the art of the Southwest Region of the US...
Gabrielle Montoya
Georgia O'Keeffe
Bessie Smith
Langston Hughes
34
Government policy of leaving the economy alone
Socialism
credit
Communism
Laissez Faire
35
The KKK supported African American rights.
True
False
36
Who wrote
The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
T.S. Eliot
Gertrude Stein
Ernest Hemingway
37
Meyer Wolfsheim...
Fixed the World Series
Fought in WWI
Has had four marriages
Is a former slave owner
38
All of these are characteristics of a flapper in the 1920s EXCEPT
short, bob hairstyles
traditional views
smoking
short skirts
39
What dance was popular during the 1920s?
The Belly Flop
Hip Hop
The Charleston
The Flamingo
40
What is Margret Sanger known for?
Inventing the phonograph
Inventing ibuprofen
Inventing the birth control pill
Inventing the Flapper culture
41
After Gatsby dies, Daisy…
Tells Nick she can’t attend the funeral, but sends along flowers.
Is devastated by the news of Gatsby’s death.
Comes to Gatsby’s funeral with Tom and doesn’t shed a tear.
Leaves with Tom when Nick tries to call her and doesn’t even send a flower.
42
How did the economic boom of the 1920s alter consumerism in the US?
it led to the "Lost Generation"
it created new forms of advertising and expanded credit
it caused the repeal of the Treaty of Versailles
it spurred the creation fo Bessemer steel
43
Which characteristic of the 1920s is illustrated by the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
intolerance and Nativism toward immigrants
The expansion of Flapper rights
hostility toward woman's suffrage
support for segregation
44
The 1920s are sometimes called the "Roaring Twenties" because...
of the popular television shows during this time
widespread social and economic change
foreign trade prospered during this time
the government became more republican
45
Emerging African American artistic movement of the 1920s
Detroit Movement
Harlem Renaissance
Compton Revival
K-Pop Revival
46
Who was the Ku Klux Klan
not
hostile toward?
African Americans
White Protestants
Jews
Catholics
47
Gatsby dismisses his servants because. . .
he is expecting trouble with the law.
he's low on money.
they weren't dismissed, but instead quit.
they might spread rumors about Daisy.
48
Define Nativism
Southern hostility to people from Canada
Northern support for immigrants from Swaziland
Western support for Native Americans
Country-wide hostility and fear of immigrants
49
The booming stock market in the 1920s
ended unemployment in the United States
made most Americans wealthy
encouraged people to borrow money to buy stocks
discouraged people from borrowing money to buy stocks
50
Why were the Negro leagues created?
Blacks were not accepted in major/minor leagues
They were used to scout blacks for major league teams
They were created to intimidate and threaten white leagues
Whites were intimidated by superior skills of blacks
51
Who said "you are worth the whole rotten bunch together?"
Myrtle
Nick
Daisy
Tom
52
Where was Gatsby born?
New York
North Dakota
Hawaii
Michigan
53
Popular Blues Singer of the 1920s.
Bessie Smith
Zora Neal Hurston
Marcus Garvey
Louis Armstrong
54
Best known Harlem Renaissance poet
Langston Hughes
Rogers Hornsby
Babe Ruth
Claude McKay
55
Aviator who made the first transatlantic solo flight from NY to Paris
The Great Gatsby
Amelia Earhart
Glenn Curtiss
Charles Lindbergh
56
Prohibition drastically
reduced
alcohol consumption in America
True
False
57
What does Daisy hope her Daughter will grow up to be?
A beautiful little fool
A jazz singer
Rich and Famous
A volleyball star
58
Gatsby tells Tom...
"No evil can happen to a good man, in life or after death."
"Daisy never loved you."
"You've made illegal deals yourself, old sport"
"I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me."
