Harlem Renaissance and Modernism Historical Context- Quiz

Question 1

What year did the Great Depression begin?

Accepted Answer

1929

Question 2

Who perfected the assembly line?

Accepted Answer

Henry Ford

Question 3

Who wrote Spoon River Anthology?

Accepted Answer

Edgar Lee Masters

Question 4

From ____ to ____ has been called "the Age of the Short Story" in American Literature.

Accepted Answer

1890-1930

Question 5

The Dust Bowl was a ______ _______ that began in the early 1930's.

Accepted Answer

severe drought

Question 6

Who sold stories to the Saturday Evening Post?

Accepted Answer

William Faulkner

Question 7

Name this period in which alcohol was made illegal.

Accepted Answer

Prohibition

Question 8

What amendment gave women the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

19th Amendment

Question 9

What was a flapper?

Accepted Answer

Emancipated young women

Question 10

What caused the premature end of the Harlem Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

the Great Depression

Question 11

What format of writing did H.D. and Amy Lowell use?

Accepted Answer

free verse

Question 12

Which writer is mostly associated with the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

John Steinbeck

Question 13

What year did the New Yorker first appear?

Accepted Answer

1925

Question 14

Modernism saw mass society as a ________ to the individual, especially the artist.

Accepted Answer

threat

Question 15

Also known as "the Great War", it was an influential force on 20th century American writers.

Accepted Answer

World War I

Question 16

This US President promised to give the country a "New Deal", during his campaign.

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 17

How many nations were involved in World War I?

Accepted Answer

32

Question 18

How many people died during World War I?

Accepted Answer

20,000,000

Question 19

What were the 1920's known as?

Accepted Answer

The Roaring Twenties

Question 20

A literary technique developed from the theories of Sigmund Freud.

Accepted Answer

stream of consciousness

Question 21

The New Yorker was founded by one time newspaper man, ________ ________.

Accepted Answer

Harold Ross

Question 22

What did Langston Hughes say about jazz?

Accepted Answer

it is a heartbeat

Question 23

Thousands of black settled in _______ during the Great Migration.

Accepted Answer

Harlem

Question 24

What inspired Claude McKay's poem "If we Must Die"?

Accepted Answer

race riots of 1919

Question 25

What was the cause of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Stock market crash

Question 26

Where did many farmers and their families flee to?

Accepted Answer

California

Question 27

What did Countee Cullen write about?

Accepted Answer

the black struggle

Question 28

How many square miles of farms were damaged during the Dust Bowl?

Accepted Answer

150,000

Question 29

The 1920's was the first decade to be shaped by ________ _________.

Accepted Answer

mass media

Question 30

During the Great Migration, millions of blacks moved to the urban north in search of __ and __.

Accepted Answer

freedom and opportunity

Harlem Renaissance and Modernism Historical Context- Quiz

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