Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sinclair Lewis were all members of
the A. | Harlem
Renaissance. | C. | Untouchables. | B. | Lost Generation. | D. | Chicago underworld. | | | | |
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The
sale of alcohol was forbidden by which amendment? A. | Twentieth | C. | Eighteenth | B. | Sixteenth | D. | Nineteenth | | | | |
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Which
industry was the nation’s biggest business in the 1920s? A. | radio | C. | auto | B. | advertising | D. | movies | | | | |
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Most
advertisements were aimed at A. | senior citizens. | C. | children. | B. | men. | D. | women. | | | | |
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Which
industry grew from $500 million before World War I to $3 billion in 1929? A. | advertising | C. | youth
culture | B. | radio and phonograph sales | D. | building | | | | |
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Which
movement originated among African American musicians in the South? A. | Harlem
Renaissance | C. | fundamentalism | B. | jazz | D. | bootlegging | | | | |
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What
was a negative effect of the automobile? A. | Volstead Act | C. | Scopes trial | B. | auto-touring | D. | higher accident
rate | | | | |
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The
assembly line A. | led to a more
permanent workforce. | B. | made work more meaningful. | C. | increased
productivity. | D. | made advancement opportunities
available. | | |
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9.
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The Jazz Singer was a A. | song. | C. | recording. | B. | sports
team. | D. | movie. | | | | |
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10.
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One
method of increasing production is to utilize A. | scientific management. | C. | an installment plan. | B. | an industrial
designer. | D. | testimonials. | | | | |
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Who
said “It will cost a man his job to have the odor of beer, wine or liquor on his breath or have
any of these intoxicants in his home”? A. | Paul Robeson | C. | Jim Thorpe | B. | Henry
Ford | D. | Cecil B.
DeMille | | | | |
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One
of the players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series was A. | Jim
Thorpe. | C. | Ty
Cobb. | B. | Red Grange. | D. | “Shoeless” Joe Jackson. | | | | |
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The
practice of accepting a religious text as literally true is called A. | fundamentalism. | C. | revivalism. | B. | Pentecostalism. | D. | Protestantism. | | | | |
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Which
African American graduate of Columbia University Law School went on to become one of the most highly
acclaimed actors of the 1920s? A. | James Weldon Johnson | C. | Paul Robeson | B. | Langston
Hughes | D. | Edward
Hopper | | | | |
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What
was passed to enforce prohibition? A. | Twenty-first Amendment | C. | Eighteenth Amendment | B. | Volstead
Act | D. | Untouchables | | | | |
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Matching
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Match each item with the correct statement. A. | Robert
Lynd | N. | Henry
Ford | B. | Model
T | O. | installment
plan | C. | Al
Jolson | P. | Charles
Lindbergh | D. | prairie style | Q. | George Gershwin | E. | Babe
Ruth | R. | planned
obsolescence | F. | Al Capone | S. | liquor | G. | electricity | T. | Amelia
Earhart | H. | college | U. | Alfred P. Sloan | I. | flappers | V. | scientific
management | J. | Bessie Smith | W. | Harlem | K. | Aimee Semple
McPherson | X. | auto-touring | L. | Frederick W. Taylor | Y. | Jim Thorpe | M. | Tennessee | Z. | jazz | | | | |
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16.
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determined that every kind of work could be broken down into smaller
units
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ran
his factory on the assembly-line production method
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18.
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by
1930 more than two thirds of American homes had this
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a new
vacation craze that swept the country
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20.
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by
1925 about 75 percent of cars were bought using this method of financing
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21.
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the
Eighteenth Amendment called for a ban on the sale of this
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controlled Chicago’s underworld with the help of his gang
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young
women who wore shorter skirts and transparent silk hose
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24.
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for
the first time, a growing number of young people began to attend
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starred in the first feature-length “talkie”
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26.
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a
popular Los Angeles revivalist who took full advantage of the new media of radio
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27.
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famous baseball player of the 1920s
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28.
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Clarence Darrow defended John Scopes for teaching the theory of evolution in this
state
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29.
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flew
airmail cargo planes between St. Louis and Chicago
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30.
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brought the blues to American audiences through recordings
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31.
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combined classical music with American jazz in the composition “Rhapsody in
Blue”
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32.
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a
northern flowering of African American artistic style took place in this location
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33.
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term
for making products specifically designed to go out of style
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34.
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painted a mural featuring assembly-line workers
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35.
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Frank
Lloyd Wright is known for this style of domestic architecture
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