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1
Emerging African American artistic movement of the 1920s
Harlem Renaissance
Detroit Movement
Compton Revival
K-Pop Revival
2
What was the most popular music genre in the 1920s?
Swing
K-Pop
Jazz
Alternative
3
Best known Harlem Renaissance poet
Rogers Hornsby
Langston Hughes
Babe Ruth
Claude McKay
4
Meyer Wolfsheim...
Fought in WWI
Fixed the World Series
Has had four marriages
Is a former slave owner
5
Who lives on East Egg?
Jordan
Gatsby
Tom and Daisy
Nick
6
Route 66 ends with the Santa Monica Pier, which is located in...
Oregon
Kansas
California
New Mexico
7
True or False: Amelia Earhart was an aviator.
False
True
8
1920s Consumerism depended on what?
The Assembly line
All of these
Installment buying (credit)
Mass production
9
On
September 30, 1927
,
Babe Ruth calls,
and hits his----- home run of the 1927 season! A record standing for
34 years!
100th
60th
80th
70th
10
Rural societal reaction to changing values in the 1920s
Protestantism
Fundamentalism
Quakerism
Catholicism
11
Aviator who made the first transatlantic solo flight from NY to Paris
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
Glenn Curtiss
The Great Gatsby
12
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."
13
From the East, where does the route 66 start
St Louis
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
14
Which amendment passed prohibition?
18th amendment
2nd amendment
21st amendment
22nd amendment
15
Which class is Tom and Daisy Buchanan from?
New Money
No Money
Some Money
Old Money
16
Which characteristic of the 1920s is illustrated by the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
intolerance and Nativism toward immigrants
hostility toward woman's suffrage
The expansion of Flapper rights
support for segregation
17
The Automobile helped to create
mad employees
socialism
birth rates to increase
the suburbs
18
Gatsby's real name was
James Gatz
James Gatsby
Jay Gatz
Jay Carroway
19
How did the economic boom of the 1920s alter consumerism in the US?
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
it led to the "Lost Generation"
20
Nick and Gatsby live in what New York Suburb?
East Egg
Manhattan
Brooklyn
West Egg
21
Prohibition drastically
reduced
alcohol consumption in America
True
False
22
The booming stock market in the 1920s
discouraged people from borrowing money to buy stocks
ended unemployment in the United States
made most Americans wealthy
encouraged people to borrow money to buy stocks
23
What is the Red Scare?
Fear of Communist Immigrants
Fear of Democracy
Fear od Capitalism
An economic theory
24
What sport did Tom Buchanan play?
none of the above
polo
golf
tennis
25
What ideas does surrealism embrace?
Randomness, imagination, unrealistic images
Only nature and animals
Ordinary portraits
Neat, organized patterns
26
WHAT WAS THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE ?
A celebration of African American Art and Literature
The name that was given to a new dance style
The first expansion team in Negro Baseball League
A NEW YORK CITY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT in 1925
27
The
initial Crash
of the Stock Market was on
Black Thursday
Black Friday
Black Monday
Black Tuesday
28
After Gatsby dies, Daisy…
Comes to Gatsby’s funeral with Tom and doesn’t shed a tear.
Tells Nick she can’t attend the funeral, but sends along flowers.
Leaves with Tom when Nick tries to call her and doesn’t even send a flower.
Is devastated by the news of Gatsby’s death.
29
Why were the Negro leagues created?
They were used to scout blacks for major league teams
Blacks were not accepted in major/minor leagues
They were created to intimidate and threaten white leagues
Whites were intimidated by superior skills of blacks
30
What is Margret Sanger known for?
Inventing the phonograph
Inventing the birth control pill
Inventing the Flapper culture
Inventing ibuprofen
31
Where did Gatsby say he graduated from?
Stanford
Oxford
Cambridge
Harvard
32
Who was the Ku Klux Klan
not
hostile toward?
White Protestants
African Americans
Jews
Catholics
33
The Great Gatsby takes place immediately after ______________.
World War I
World War II
The 1919 World Series
The Depression
34
What was the Great Migration?
Americans moving out west to San Fransisco
Northerners moving south
The movement of African Americans from the South to the North
Largest Zebra migration ever recorded
35
What dance was popular during the 1920s?
Hip Hop
The Charleston
The Flamingo
The Belly Flop
36
Who said "you are worth the whole rotten bunch together?"
Myrtle
Nick
Daisy
Tom
37
The 19th amendment in 1920 did what?
Gave women the right to vote
Gave African American men the right to vote
Made selling and drinking alcohol illegal
Made teaching evolution illegal
38
Government policy of leaving the economy alone
credit
Laissez Faire
Socialism
Communism
39
Where did Tom and Daisy get married?
Louisville
France
New Orleans
Chicago
40
This was the term used for purchasing stocks with borrowed money
Bull Market
Laissez Faire
Consumerism
Margin Buying
41
What were illegal bars during the prohibition called?
speakeasies
the brass rail
talkies
bootleggers
42
What does Daisy hope her Daughter will grow up to be?
A volleyball star
Rich and Famous
A jazz singer
A beautiful little fool
43
Define Nativism
Country-wide hostility and fear of immigrants
Southern hostility to people from Canada
Western support for Native Americans
Northern support for immigrants from Swaziland
44
The KKK supported African American rights.
True
False
45
What did Prohibition cause?
A rise in drug overdoses
Homelessness, starvation, not enough government help
Organized crime and bootlegging
The growth of alcohol advertising on radio
46
Where was Gatsby born?
New York
North Dakota
Michigan
Hawaii
47
Gatsby dismisses his servants because. . .
they might spread rumors about Daisy.
he's low on money.
he is expecting trouble with the law.
they weren't dismissed, but instead quit.
48
The 1920s are sometimes called the "Roaring Twenties" because...
widespread social and economic change
foreign trade prospered during this time
of the popular television shows during this time
the government became more republican
49
What does Jordan say Gatsby wants Nick to do?
Bring Daisy to one of Gatsby's parties
Kill Tom
Wash his car
Invite Daisy over for tea and secretly invite Gatsby
50
All of these are characteristics of a flapper in the 1920s EXCEPT
traditional views
smoking
short skirts
short, bob hairstyles
51
For the first time ever, the decade of the 1920s saw most Americans living in...
farms
the city
the suburbs
skyscrapers
52
Popular Blues Singer of the 1920s.
Marcus Garvey
Bessie Smith
Louis Armstrong
Zora Neal Hurston
53
What does George Wilson think about the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg?
He thinks they are cameras watching his business
He wants to take the billboard down
He thinks they are an artistic masterpiece
He compares them to God's eyes--All-seeing!
54
Art Deco is characterized by...
distortion of reality and dream like images
geometric shapes, related to architecture and furniture
spontaneity, wild colours and shapes
a focus on commercial and pop culture, comic book style
55
Who wrote
The Great Gatsby?
T.S. Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gertrude Stein
Ernest Hemingway
56
American painter, known for urban scenes & for the art of the Southwest Region of the US...
Georgia O'Keeffe
Langston Hughes
Gabrielle Montoya
Bessie Smith
57
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
It took 10 years for an effect to be seen on the production
production time increased causing fewer cars to be built
there was no effect on production time
58
What did Jay Gatsby and Meyer Wolfsheim Own many of?
Nightclubs
Convenience (drug) Stores
Barber shops
Dog Pounds
