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Chapter 26
The Modern Temper
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Undergraduate 1
07/23/2013

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Political and social radicalism arose after World War I because:
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postwar culture was entering an era of bewildering change.
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The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:
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favored immigrants from northern and western Europe.
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The 1924 immigration law:
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set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country.
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The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was based mainly on:
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"100 percent Americanism"
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The Scopes trial:
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concerned a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.
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As a result of the Scopes trial:
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John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution.
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By the early 1900s, the Anti-Saloon League:
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had become one of the most effective pressure groups in American history.
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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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1919
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The Roaring Twenties was dubbed "The Jazz Age" by:
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F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Jazz:
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blended African and Europe musical traditions.
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The novel This Side of Paradise concerned:
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modernist student life at Princeton.
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Which amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote?
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Nineteenth
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Which of the following statements best describes working women in the 1920s?
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The number of employed women rose.
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The "Susan B. Anthony Amendment" concerned:
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women's suffrage.
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The movement of southern blacks to the North:
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was called the "Great Migration"
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The Harlem Renaissance:
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sought to rediscover black folk culture.
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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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"[He] is the most dangerous enemy of the Negro Race... He is either a lunatic or a traitor."
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The Universal Negro Improvement Association:
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was led by Marcus Garvey
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The NAACP emphasized:
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enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
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The culture of modernism was characterized by:
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developments in science that challenged perceptions of certainty.
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The theories of relativity and quantum physics led people to:
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deny the relevance of absolute values in society at large.
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Modernists in art and literature came to believe that:
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the subconscious is more interesting and more potent than reason.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about:
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"the greatest, gaudiest spree in history."
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The southern literary renaissance came about because:
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of the conflict between southern traditions and modern commercialism.
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Modernism waned by the end of the 1920s because:
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the Great Depression prompted a more traditional perspective in the arts.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald...
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wrote This Side of Paradise
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Thomas Wolfe...
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wrote Look Homeward, Angel
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Ernest Hemingway...
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wrote the Sun Also Rises
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T.S. Eliot...
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wrote the Waste Land
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Marcus Garvey...
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founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
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Clarence Darrow...
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defended the teaching of evolution in the Scopes trial
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Werner Heisenberg...
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developed principle of uncertainty
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Alice Paul...
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promoted civil disobedience in the fight for women's suffrage
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Women's Christian Temperance Union...
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pressured the government to prohibit alcohol
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The Ku Klux Klan...
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attacked the blacks, Jews, and Roman Catholics
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T/F: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization.
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False
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T/F: Proponents of Prohibition displayed ethnic and social prejudices in the drive to make America "dry."
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True
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T/F: The Scopes "monkey trial" sought to keep the theory of evolution in science classrooms in Tennessee.
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False
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T/F: The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular, rural America.
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True
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T/F: Jazz music inspired rural youth to remember their culture's musical roots.
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False
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T/F: Flappers was the slang word for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s.
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False
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T/F: Women gained the right to vote in 1916 as World War I began.
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False
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T/F: The NAACP favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination.
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False
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T/F: Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg were members of Al Capone's gang in Chicago.
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False
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T/F: The culture of modernism viewed reality as something to be created, not copied.
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True
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T/F: During the 1920s ideas of scientists about the nature of the universe inspired modernist artists to try new techniques.
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True
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T/F: The major American proponents of modernist literature lived in Europe.
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True
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T/F: The southern renaissance was characterized by a dying traditional world and the birth of a modern, commercial world inspired by World War I's industrial production.
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True
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