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Literature Section II.3 (pp. 17-20)
Literature Section II.3 (pp. 17-20)
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6. Jazz largely developed initially in which of following cities?
New Orleans
Chicago
Harlem
Kansas City
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4. During the Harlem Renaissance, black poets could get published in significant and widely read magazines like
The Masses
Ebony
The Word
The Crisis
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7. The earliest versions of jazz were a mixture of all of the following EXCEPT
Waltz
Tin Pan Alley
Brass Bands
Ragtime
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15. According to USAD, the most influential piece of modernist writing is undoubtedly
Theodore Dreisler's An American Tragedy
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
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1. Which of the following statements regarding
The Great Gatsby's
relationship with African Americans is true?
The novel is overtly racist by modern standards.
The novel portrays sympathetic attitudes toward African Americans.
The novel offers minimal engagement with African Americans.
The novel overtly incorporates significant influences of jazz.
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11. In general,
modernism
refers to the efforts of artists to
come to terms with the radical changes occurring across the world
rewrite the past using new styles and idioms
express new ideas exclusively through abstraction
all of the above
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16. F. Scott Fitzgerald's work can be described as highly experimental.
False
True
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2. According to Samuel A. Floyd, the Harlem Renaissance was an
effort to promote black pride and black separatism from whites
effort to prove African American superiority in the arts compared to whites
effort to highlight African cultural expression and anti-imperialist views
effort to secure economic, social, and cultural equality with whites
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5. All of the following statements regarding the Harlem Renaissance are true EXCEPT
black writers achieved similar fame and recognition as white writers
literary use of musical developments included jazz and the blues
major movie studios began to focus on the black experience in the U.S.
black writers sometimes wrote about folk traditions
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13. Which of the following implemented nonlinear, cinematic, and journalistic storytelling techniques into his novels?
Sinclair Lewis
John Steinbeck
John Dos Passos
Ernest Hemingway
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9. All of the following were major jazz musicians of the "Jazz Age" EXCEPT
Joe "King" Oliver
Stan Kenton
Duke Ellington
Fletcher Henderson
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8. Jazz became a national sensation after
Bessie Smith's early recordings
Louis Armstrong's arrival in Chicago
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's recordings
Duke Ellington's debut at the Cotton Club
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12. All of the following were themes included in modernist works EXCEPT
horrors of World War I
destruction of traditionals view of home, country, and region
alienation and dislocation due to urbanization
loss of influence among rural societies
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10. Who was an influential blues singer in the 20s who sang about the difficulties of growing up poor and marginalized?
Lillian Harding
Ethel Merman
Mamie Smith
Zora Neale Hurston
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3. Important educators and activists who set the stage for the Harlem Renaissance included all of the following EXCEPT
W. E. B. Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Countee Cullen
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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14. Which writer played with radical new linguistic forms, focusing almost exclusively on “pure” language?
Charlotte Bronte
Agatha Christie
Virginia Woolf
Gertrude Stein
