Question 1

After encountering strong resistance, Mabel Puffer and Arthur Hazzard:

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A)   were married in New Hampshire.
B)   were married in New York
C)   were married in Canada
D)   were never allowed to marry
E)   were really not engaged to be marriedF) None of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 2

The major American prophets of modernist literature lived in Europe.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Paul Gauguin acknowledged that the upheavals of cultural modernism and the aftermath of the war produced "an epoch of progress."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Petting parties were:

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A)   opportunities for young men and women to experiment sexually with each other
B)   opportunities for young men and women to learn about proper treatment of dogs and cats
C)   opportunities to raise money for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPC
A)  
D)   visits to the zoo so young people could get away from their parents
E)   parents' chance to teach their children proper moralsF) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 5

Which of the following did W.E.B. Du Bois say in his opposition to Marcus Garvey?

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A)   "We have to rid ourselves of this viper."
B)   "He will help only his friends and not the great mass of black people."
C)   "He thinks that black people only are good enough to be plumbers."
D)   "He believes himself to be the very second coming of Christ."
E)   He is "the most dangerous enemy of the Negro race. . . . He is either a lunatic or a traitor."F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

Question 6

Gertrude Stein was a(n) :

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A)   disc jockey
B)   dada artist
C)   experimentalist poet
D)   freedom fighter in WWI
E)   member of CongressF) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 7

Describe the variety of spectator sports common in the 1920s. How successful were they in capturing the imagination of Americans?

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Question 8

In the 1920s, people of Latin American descent became the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the United States.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

The movement of southern blacks to the North:

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A)   was called the Great Migration
B)   created the rise of the KKK
C)   saw many African Americans return to Africa
D)   was so large that southern agriculture was interrupted
E)   meant industry could no longer hire whitesF) C) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 10

Modernists in art and literature came to believe that:

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A)   nature's reality can be captured in art
B)   human reason ruled all of nature
C)   science and art had no connection
D)   art, in the end, had rules that should be obeyed
E)   the subconscious is more interesting and more potent than the traditional focus on reasonF) B) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 11

Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., a St. Louis-based mail pilot, made the first solo transatlantic flight, traveling from New York to Paris in:

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A)   1927
B)   1928
C)   1926
D)   1920
E)   1929F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

Question 12

The amendment to the constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was ratified in:

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A)   1911
B)   1919
C)   1922
D)   1928
E)   1932F) B) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 13

The Scopes trial:

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A)   pitted William Howard Taft, former U.S. president and confessed agnostic, for the prosecution against fundamentalist Clarence Darrow for the defense
B)   concerned a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools
C)   represented victory of the fundamentalist movement in America
D)   prosecuted Klansmen for lynching
E)   brought Americans together on the subject of educationF) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 14

The Roaring Twenties was dubbed "the Jazz Age" by:

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A)   Upton Sinclair
B)   Ernest Hemingway
C)   Langston Hughes
D)   Louis Armstrong
E)   F.Scott FitzgeraldF) B) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 15

Not being able to convict Al Capone on bootlegging charges, the federal government convicted him for:

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A)   illegal immigration activities
B)   drug trafficking
C)   contempt of Congress
D)   tax evasion
E)   prostitutionF) D) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 16

The horrors of World War I accelerated:

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A)   the need to rearm
B)   the formation of the United Nations
C)   the birth of computers
D)   rebellion in the United States
E)   the insurgency of modernism in the artsF) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 17

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:

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A)   convicted of bombing eight army supply trucks
B)   two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was doubt as to their guilt
C)   finally exonerated of the charges of payroll robbery and murder
D)   murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan
E)   the New York Yankees' double-play combination during the 1920sF) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 18

"Flappers" was the slang word for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

William Jennings Bryan:

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A)   believed evolution should be taught in science classes
B)   prosecuted John Scopes in the Dayton, Tennessee, evolution case for teaching evolution
C)   was the mayor of Dayton, Tennessee
D)   was a vocal supporter of the Ku Klux Klan
E)   advocated ProhibitionF) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 20

All of the following were prophets of modern art and literature EXCEPT:

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A)   Ezra Pound
B)   Edward Bellamy
C)   Gertrude Stein
D)   T. S. Eliot
E)   Ernest HemingwayF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Exam 25: The Modern Temper

Gertrude Stein was a(n) :

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All of the following were prophets of modern art and literature EXCEPT:

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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:

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The Roaring Twenties was dubbed "the Jazz Age" by:

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The horrors of World War I accelerated:

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Describe the variety of spectator sports common in the 1920s. How successful were they in capturing the imagination of Americans?

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The movement of southern blacks to the North:

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Modernists in art and literature came to believe that:

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After encountering strong resistance, Mabel Puffer and Arthur Hazzard:

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The Scopes trial:

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"Flappers" was the slang word for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s.

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The amendment to the constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was ratified in:

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Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., a St. Louis-based mail pilot, made the first solo transatlantic flight, traveling from New York to Paris in:

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Which of the following did W.E.B. Du Bois say in his opposition to Marcus Garvey?

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Not being able to convict Al Capone on bootlegging charges, the federal government convicted him for:

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In the 1920s, people of Latin American descent became the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the United States.

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The major American prophets of modernist literature lived in Europe.

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William Jennings Bryan:

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Paul Gauguin acknowledged that the upheavals of cultural modernism and the aftermath of the war produced "an epoch of progress."

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Petting parties were:

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