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Chapter 23A Clash of Cultures, 1920–1929
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.Political and social radicalism arose after World War I because:
a. / people had been bored by World War I’s rationing of goods.b. / postwar culture was entering an era of bewildering change.
c. / southerners neglected agricultural responsibilities.
d. / northern cities asserted cultural superiority because of industry.
e. / President Woodrow Wilson encouraged opposition to old traditions.
ANS:BDIF:EasyREF:Pages 853–854
OBJ:1TOP:A “New Era” of Consumption (I)MSC:Analyzing
2.In 1920, what percentage of homes in America had electricity?
a. / 60 / d. / 25b. / 35 / e. / 75
c. / 50
ANS:BDIF:ModerateREF:Page 856OBJ:1
TOP:The Rise of Mass Culture (I.b.)MSC:Remembering
3.Charlie Chaplin is best associated with:
a. / politics. / d. / stand-up comedy.b. / muckraking journalism. / e. / slapstick comedy.
c. / alternative comedy.
ANS:EDIF:ModerateREF:Page 857OBJ:1
TOP:Movie-Made Culture (I.c.)MSC:Remembering
4.The first radio station to begin broadcasting regularly scheduled programs was located in:
a. / Detroit. / d. / Pittsburgh.b. / New York. / e. / Boston.
c. / Cleveland.
ANS:DDIF:DifficultREF:Page 857OBJ:1
TOP:Radio (I.d.)MSC:Remembering
5.What event aided the further development of the airplane?
a. / advances made in automobilesb. / advertising on the radio
c. / political pressure
d. / the development of lighter steel
e. / increased industrial efforts for World War I
ANS:EDIF:DifficultREF:Page 858OBJ:1
TOP:Flying Machines (I.e.)MSC:Applying
6.In 1920, how many cars were registered in the United States?
a. / 4 million / d. / 10 millionb. / 6 million / e. / 11 million
c. / 8 million
ANS:CDIF:ModerateREF:Page 858OBJ:1
TOP:The Car Culture (I.f.)MSC:Remembering
7.The “House That Ruth Built,” is also known as:
a. / Wrigley Field. / d. / Tiger Stadium.b. / Yankee Stadium. / e. / Ebbets Field.
c. / Red Sox Field.
ANS:BDIF:EasyREF:Page 860OBJ:3
TOP:Spectator Sports (I.g.)MSC:Remembering
8.Which one of the following is associated with Detroit, Michigan?
a. / airplane industry / d. / entertainment industryb. / socialism / e. / automobile industry
c. / farming
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TOP:The Car Culture (I.f.)MSC:Applying
9.Margaret Sanger:
a. / was the first aviator to fly around the world.b. / was the first person to advocate for birth control for women.
c. / was the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic.
d. / was the first woman elected to Congress.
e. / was an advocate of Prohibition.
ANS:BDIF:ModerateREF:Page 863OBJ:3
TOP:A Sexual Revolution? (II.b.)MSC:Remembering
10.What were the professional baseball leagues for African Americans called?
a. / Negro Leagues / d. / Minor Leaguesb. / Black Leagues / e. / Inner City Leagues
c. / African American Leagues
ANS:ADIF:ModerateREF:Page 860OBJ:3
TOP:Spectator Sports (I.g.)MSC:Remembering
11.William Harrison “Jack” Dempsey is best associated with:
a. / football. / d. / boxing.b. / baseball. / e. / radio.
c. / horse racing.
ANS:DDIF:ModerateREF:Page 860OBJ:3
TOP:Spectator Sports (I.g.)MSC:Remembering
12.The amendment to the Constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors (Prohibition) went into effect in:
a. / 1911. / d. / 1928.b. / 1920. / e. / 1932.
c. / 1922.
ANS:BDIF:DifficultREF:Page 853OBJ:3
TOP:A “New Era” of Consumption (I)MSC:Remembering
13.Which amendment to the Constitution is known as the Prohibition amendment?
a. / Seventeenth / d. / Twentiethb. / Eighteenth / e. / Twenty-first
c. / Nineteenth
ANS:BDIF:DifficultREF:Page 853OBJ:3
TOP:A “New Era” of Consumption (I)MSC:Remembering
14.The desire to restore traditional values and social stability in 1920 led voters to elect as president:
a. / Woodrow Wilson. / d. / Warren G. Harding.b. / Calvin Coolidge. / e. / William Jennings Bryan.
c. / Theodore Roosevelt.
ANS:DDIF:EasyREF:Page 853OBJ:3
TOP:A “New Era” of Consumption (I)MSC:Remembering
15.Who celebrated the jazz era’s spontaneity and sensual vitality?
a. / Sherwood Anderson / d. / Sinclair Lewisb. / Countee Cullen / e. / F. Scott Fitzgerald
c. / James Weldon Johnson
ANS:EDIF:EasyREF:Page 860OBJ:2
TOP:The “Jazz Age” (II)MSC:Remembering
16.The Roaring Twenties was dubbed the “Jazz Age” by:
a. / Upton Sinclair. / d. / Louis Armstrong.b. / Ernest Hemingway. / e. / F. Scott Fitzgerald.
c. / Langston Hughes.
ANS:EDIF:EasyREF:Page 861OBJ:2
TOP:The Birth of Jazz (II.a.)MSC:Remembering
17.The novel This Side of Paradise concerned:
a. / immigrant life in New York City.b. / the lax enforcement of Prohibition.
c. / modernist student life at Princeton.
d. / fundamentalist attacks on modernism.
e. / the beginnings of Miami’s tourist industry.
ANS:CDIF:ModerateREF:Page 861OBJ:3
TOP:The Birth of Jazz (II.a.)MSC:Remembering
18.The Armory Show in 1913:
a. / was a controversial exhibition of modern art.b. / introduced many women to new clothing fashions.
c. / featured poetry readings by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.
d. / showed the continuing appeal of traditional values.
e. / led directly to woman suffrage.
ANS:ADIF:ModerateREF:Page 873OBJ:4
TOP:Modernist Art and Literature (III.b.)MSC:Remembering
19.After encountering strong resistance, Mabel Puffer and Arthur Hazzard:
a. / were married in New Hampshire.b. / were never allowed to marry.
c. / were married in New York.
d. / were married in Canada.
e. / were really not engaged to be married.
ANS:BDIF:ModerateREF:Page 865OBJ:2
TOP:A Sexual Revolution? (II.b.)MSC:Remembering
20.The movement of southern blacks to the North:
a. / was called the “Great Migration.”b. / created the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.
c. / saw many African Americans return to Africa.
d. / was so large that southern agriculture was interrupted.
e. / meant industry could no longer hire whites.
ANS:ADIF:EasyREF:Page 866OBJ:3
TOP:African American Life (II.h.)MSC:Remembering
21.The Harlem Renaissance:
a. / made the connection between the African American experience and the legal structure of Rome.b. / emphasized socialism as the means to black empowerment.
c. / sought to rediscover black folk culture.
d. / was confined to jazz.
e. / embraced Booker T. Washington’s conciliatory strategy.
ANS:CDIF:EasyREF:Page 867OBJ:3
TOP:The Harlem Renaissance (II.j.)MSC:Applying
22.James Weldon Johnson coined the term:
a. / Aframerican. / d. / bootlegger.b. / progressivism. / e. / Negro.
c. / flapper.
ANS:ADIF:EasyREF:Page 869OBJ:3
TOP:Garveyism (II.k.)MSC:Remembering
23.The Universal Negro Improvement Association:
a. / sponsored black artists and writers.b. / was led by Marcus Garvey.
c. / promoted Booker T. Washington’s idea of racial peace through accommodation.
d. / was the forerunner of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
e. / was conceived by W.E.B. Du Bois.
ANS:BDIF:ModerateREF:Page 869OBJ:3
TOP:Garveyism (II.k.)MSC:Remembering
24.Marcus Garvey:
a. / sought reconciliation with southern whites.b. / said blacks should return to Africa.
c. / was a revered jazz saxophonist.
d. / helped lead the suffragist movement.
e. / was allied with W.E.B. Du Bois.
ANS:BDIF:EasyREF:Page 869OBJ:3
TOP:Garveyism (II.k.)MSC:Remembering
25.Which of the following did W.E.B. Du Bois say in his opposition to Marcus Garvey?
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.”
ANS:EDIF:ModerateREF:Page 870OBJ:3
TOP:Garveyism (II.k.)MSC:Remembering
26.The NAACP emphasized:
a. / enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.b. / the formation of a black political party.
c. / vocational and technical education.
d. / Du Bois’s concept of supporting the Talented Tenth.
e. / strictly black membership.
ANS:ADIF:EasyREF:Page 867OBJ:3
TOP:The NAACP (II.i.)MSC:Applying
27.Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., a St. Louis–based mail pilot, made the first solo transatlantic flight, traveling from New York to Paris in:
a. / 1929. / d. / 1920.b. / 1928. / e. / 1927.
c. / 1926.
ANS:EDIF:DifficultREF:Page 858OBJ:3
TOP:Flying Machines (I.e.)MSC:Remembering
28.Who in 1921 told Hemingway that he and his friends who had served in the war “are a lost generation?”
a. / Gertrude Stein / d. / Franz Boasb. / Ezra Pound / e. / Ernest Hemingway
c. / T. S. Eliot
ANS:ADIF:DifficultREF:Page 875OBJ:4
TOP:The “Lost Generation” (III.e.)MSC:Remembering
29.In physics, the theory of relativity was developed and explained by:
a. / Albert Einstein. / d. / Werner Heisenberg.b. / Isaac Newton. / e. / Sir Francis Bacon.
c. / Max Planck.
ANS:ADIF:ModerateREF:Page 871OBJ:4
TOP:Albert Einstein (III.a.)MSC:Remembering
30.In physics, who developed the theoretical basis of quantum theory?
a. / Albert Einstein / d. / Werner Heisenbergb. / Isaac Newton / e. / Sir Francis Bacon
c. / Max Planck
ANS:ADIF:DifficultREF:Page 871OBJ:4
TOP:Albert Einstein (III.a.)MSC:Remembering
31.The theories of relativity and quantum physics led people to:
a. / hold petting parties.b. / enter retirement.
c. / deny the relevance of absolute values in society at large.
d. / recognize jazz’s role in destabilizing American society.
e. / embrace the notion that human reason is immutable.
ANS:CDIF:ModerateREF:Page 872OBJ:4
TOP:Modernist Art and Literature (III.b.)MSC:Applying
32.Gertrude Stein was a(n):
a. / disc jockey. / d. / freedom fighter in World War I.b. / Dada artist. / e. / member of Congress.
c. / experimentalist poet.
ANS:CDIF:EasyREF:Page 874OBJ:4
TOP:Pound, Eliot, and Stein (III.d.)MSC:Applying
33.Modernists in art and literature recognized:
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. / new technologies and embraced scientific discovery.
ANS:EDIF:ModerateREF:Page 872OBJ:4
TOP:Modernist Art and Literature (III.b.)MSC:Applying
34.F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about:
a. / rational people dedicated to traditional values.b. / “real” life punctuated by the doomed, war-tainted love affairs of young Americans.
c. / patriotic fervor among the American expatriate writers in Paris.
d. / masculinity and a desperate search for life.
e. / hope and happiness in America’s heartland.
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TOP:The “Lost Generation” (III.e.)MSC:Applying
35.Fitzgerald’s stories during the 1920s were:
a. / written for Hollywood. / d. / nonfiction.b. / painfully autobiographical. / e. / about science.
c. / not discovered until the 1960s.
ANS:BDIF:EasyREF:Page 875OBJ:4
TOP:The “Lost Generation” (III.e.)MSC:Applying
36.Hemingway used the phrase “lost generation” as the epigraph in:
a. / A Farewell to Arms (1929). / d. / Three Lives (1909).b. / This Side of Paradise (1920). / e. / The Sun Also Rises (1926).
c. / The Waste Land (1922).
ANS:EDIF:DifficultREF:Page 875OBJ:4
TOP:The “Lost Generation” (III.e.)MSC:Remembering
37.All of the following were prophets of modern art and literature EXCEPT:
a. / Ezra Pound. / d. / T. S. Eliot.b. / Edward Bellamy. / e. / Ernest Hemingway.
c. / Gertrude Stein.
ANS:BDIF:EasyREF:Pages 874OBJ:4
TOP:Pound, Eliot, and Stein (III.d.)MSC:Remembering
38.Margaret Sanger’s initial efforts to educate the public about birth control and responsibility were aimed at:
a. / upper class women. / d. / fathers.b. / lower class women. / e. / mothers.
c. / teens.
ANS:BDIF:DifficultREF:Page 864OBJ:4
TOP:Margaret Sanger and Birth Control (II.d.)MSC:Remembering
39.Who was the New York nurse and midwife in the working-class tenements of Manhattan who observed many young mothers struggling to provide for their growing families?
a. / Gertrude Stein / d. / Amelia Earhartb. / T. S. Eliot / e. / Ernest Hemingway
c. / Margaret Sanger
ANS:CDIF:DifficultREF:Page 863OBJ:4
TOP:Margaret Sanger and Birth Control (II.d.)MSC:Remembering
40.Which court case or legal action brought the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments back to life?
a. / Abrams v. United States (1919) / d. / Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)b. / Schenck v. United States (1919) / e. / Guinn v. United States (1915)
c. / Buchanan v. Worley (1917)
ANS:EDIF:ModerateREF:Page 867OBJ:4
TOP:The NAACP (II.i.)MSC:Remembering
Chapter 24The Reactionary Twenties
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1.The progressive coalition that elected Woodrow Wilson president dissolved by 1920 for all the following reasons EXCEPT:
a. / many of the progressive reforms still seemed unattainable.b. / intellectuals became disillusioned because of the anti-evolution movement.
c. / intellectuals became disillusioned with the grassroots democracy of popular support for the Ku Klux Klan.
d. / it was interested in restoring a “new era” of prosperity based on mass production and mass consumption.
e. / Prohibition was widely unpopular.
ANS:ADIF:DifficultREF:Page 888OBJ:1
TOP:A Republican Resurgence (II)MSC:Analyzing
2.In his 1920 campaign for president, Warren G. Harding said the country needed a return to:
a. / energetic government. / d. / experimentation.b. / patriotism. / e. / progressivism.
c. / normalcy.
ANS:CDIF:EasyREF:Page 889OBJ:3
TOP:Harding and “Normalcy” (II.a.)MSC:Remembering
3.The result in the presidential election of 1920 might be attributed to:
a. / the smear campaign directed against Democratic candidate A. Mitchell Palmer.b. / the fact that Americans in the 1920s were “tired of issues, sick at heart of ideals, and weary of being noble.”
c. / southerners who expressed their displeasure at President Wilson’s policies by voting Republican.
d. / the lack of women voters in that election.
e. / all of the above.
ANS:BDIF:ModerateREF:Page 889OBJ:3
TOP:Harding and “Normalcy” (II.a.)MSC:Analyzing
4.Which one of the following is associated with Dayton, Tennessee?
a. / Paul Gauguin / d. / the Scopes trialb. / F. Scott Fitzgerald / e. / Ernest Hemingway
c. / the lynching of three Italian anarchists
ANS:DDIF:EasyREF:Page 883OBJ:5
TOP:Fundamentalism (I.c.)MSC:Remembering
5.Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:
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 1920s.
ANS:BDIF:ModerateREF:Page 880OBJ:3
TOP:Sacco and Vanzetti (I.a.)MSC:Remembering
6.The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921:
a. / created chaos in the federal budget process.b. / caused a rift within the Democratic party concerning the budget.
c. / formed a new Bureau of the Budget to streamline the process of preparing an annual federal budget.
d. / imposed a tax to rewrite the budget process.
e. / brought an end to state budgets.
ANS:CDIF:ModerateREF:Page 890OBJ:2
TOP:Andrew Mellon and the Economy (II.c.)MSC:Remembering
7.Harding’s secretary of the Treasury:
a. / favored retaining the high wartime level of taxation to build up the public treasury.b. / favored a reduction of the high wartime level of taxation, but mainly for the rich.
c. / favored a reduction of the high wartime level of taxation, but mainly for the poor and middle class.
d. / persuaded Congress to drop the personal income tax instituted under Wilson.
e. / supported calling in all loans to Europe.
ANS:BDIF:ModerateREF:Page 890OBJ:3
TOP:Andrew Mellon and the Economy (II.c.)MSC:Remembering
8.Harding’s secretary of the Treasury, who pushed tax cuts for the wealthy, was:
a. / Herbert Hoover. / d. / Albert Fall.b. / Andrew Mellon. / e. / Calvin Coolidge.
c. / Charles Evans Hughes.
ANS:BDIF:EasyREF:Page 890OBJ:3
TOP:Andrew Mellon and the Economy (II.c.)MSC:Remembering
9.As a result of the Scopes trial:
a. / Tennessee’s anti-evolution law was declared unconstitutional.b. / the fundamentalist movement disappeared.
c. / William Jennings Bryan’s political career was revived.
d. / John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution.
e. / Clarence Darrow’s legal career faded into obscurity.
ANS:DDIF:ModerateREF:Page 885OBJ:2
TOP:The Scopes Trial (I.d.)MSC:Remembering
10.The biggest scandal of the Harding administration:
a. / led to an attempt to impeach Harding that fell just four votes short of success in the House of Representatives.b. / concerned a corrupt U.S. customs official who had regularly allowed Chinese imports into the country duty-free.
c. / was the impeachment of the attorney general for fraudulent handling of German assets seized after World War I.
d. / was his fathering a child out of wedlock.
e. / involved the leasing of government-owned oil deposits to private companies.
ANS:EDIF:ModerateREF:Page 894OBJ:3
TOP:The Harding Scandals (II.j.)MSC:Remembering
11.Which of the members of Harding’s cabinet was jailed for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal?
a. / Charles Evans Hughes / d. / Calvin Coolidgeb. / Andrew Mellon / e. / Albert Fall
c. / Henry C. Wallace
ANS:EDIF:ModerateREF:Page 895OBJ:3
TOP:The Harding Scandals (II.j.)MSC:Remembering
12.Despite the many well-founded criticisms of Warren G. Harding as president, he was a visionary for his era in the field of:
a. / civil rights. / d. / business regulation.b. / economic development. / e. / bank development.
c. / government oversight.
ANS:ADIF:EasyREF:Page 891OBJ:1
TOP:Racial Progressivism (II.e.)MSC:Applying
13.Of the following presidents, which one served as vice president?
a. / Warren G. Harding / d. / Franklin D. Rooseveltb. / Calvin Coolidge / e. / Woodrow Wilson
c. / Herbert Hoover
ANS:BDIF:ModerateREF:Page 895OBJ:1
TOP:Coolidge Conservatism (II.k.)MSC:Applying
14.Harding’s administration is most remembered for:
a. / the fact that he died while in office.b. / the poor state of the economy while he was president.
c. / his promotion of the arts and culture.
d. / the scandals that plagued it.
e. / its overwhelming popularity with the American people.
ANS:DDIF:ModerateREF:Page 895OBJ:1
TOP:The Harding Scandals (II.j.)MSC:Applying
15.During the 1924 presidential election:
a. / Robert M. La Follette barely won the nomination of a faction-ridden Republican party.b. / the Democratic candidate almost upset the Republican candidate.
c. / Calvin Coolidge swept both the popular and electoral votes with decisive majorities.
d. / A. Mitchell Palmer was the Democratic candidate.
e. / Herbert Hoover challenged Coolidge for the Republican nomination.
ANS:CDIF:EasyREF:Page 897OBJ:1
TOP:Coolidge Conservatism (II.k.)MSC:Remembering
16.John W. Davis:
a. / was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1924.b. / invented the radio.
c. / starred in The Jazz Singer.
d. / was the first head of the Federal Communications Commission.
e. / was one of the first great liberal Democrats.
ANS:ADIF:ModerateREF:Page 897OBJ:2
TOP:The Election of 1924 (II.n.)MSC:Remembering
17.Robert M. La Follette’s 1924 presidential campaign:
a. / was supported by the Socialists and organized labor.b. / resulted in one of the best third-party showings in history.
c. / was as candidate for the Progressive party.
d. / is correctly represented by all of the above statements.
e. / none of the above.
ANS:DDIF:ModerateREF:Page 897OBJ:2
TOP:The Election of 1924 (II.n.)MSC:Remembering
18.The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:
a. / favored immigrants from northern and western Europe.b. / encouraged Asians to immigrate to America.
c. / set strict limits on immigration from Mexico.
d. / rescinded the Gentlemen’s Agreement accepted during Theodore Roosevelt’s administration.
e. / favored immigrants from southern and eastern Europe.
ANS:ADIF:ModerateREF:Page 880OBJ:3
TOP:Reactionary Conservatism and Immigration Restriction (I)