Quiz #3
American Perspectives Level II
Mr. Calder
American Culture 1920-1929
Directions: Write your name at the top of the paper. Number 1 – 21 down the right-hand side.
Do not skip lines. Write the capital letter of your choice beside the corresponding number.
1. What is culture?
A. A group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common
heritage, often consisting of a common language, a common culture (often
including a shared religion) and/or an ideology that stresses common ancestry.
B. The body of customary beliefs, material traits, and social forms that together
constitute the distinct tradition of a group of people.
C. The totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images and other phenomena that are
deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given
culture.
D. A group of people related to each other through persistent relations, or a large
social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory, subject to the
same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.
2. Identify the 7 elements of culture
A. Language, Religion, Economic Systems, Communism, Customs and Traditions,
Arts and Literature, Social Organizations
B. Language, Religion, Economic Systems, Forms of Government, Customs and
Traditions, Arts and Literature, Social Organizations
C. Communication, Religion, Economic Systems, Forms of Government, Customs
and Traditions, Arts and Literature, Social Organizations
D. Language, Expression, Economic Systems, Forms of Government, Customs and
Traditions, Arts and Literature, Social Organizations
3. Which of the following best describes “Old” culture idealizing the past?
A. Entrepreneur
B. Industrialist
C. Farmer
D. The Flapper
4. The culture clash between Religion and Science was the backdrop for which event?
A. The School Trial
B. The Triangle Shirtwaist Trial
C. The Trial of Darwinism
D. The Scopes Trial
5. Which two events did not occur in the 1920s, but they had the biggest impact on the
decade?
A. Prohibition and World War II
B. Prohibition and The Gilded Age
C. Prohibition and Suffrage
D. Suffrage and World War III
6. The Flapper can be classified under which of the 7 Elements of culture?
A. Social Organizations
B. Language
C. Forms of government
D. Technology
7. The changing role of women was made possible by _______________.
A. Environmental Change
B. New Ideas
C. Language
D. Science
8. Which of the following was a major threat to culture in the 1920s?
A. Ku Klux Klan
B. The Flapper
C. Prohibition
D. The Scopes Trial
9. Which element of culture does the Scopes Trial affect the most?
A. Education
B. Religion
C. Technology
D. New Ideas
10. Which of the following statements bests describes culture in the 1920s?
A. A look at the cultural clash of the 1920s provides an important historical backdrop
to issues that continue to resonate in American culture.
B. The culture of the 1920s mirrored the changes and events of the previous decade
(1910-1919).
C. The 1920s were a cultural downturn in American history.
D. The threats to culture in the 1920s overshadowed the expansion of American
culture to American territories in the South Pacific.
11. Which element of culture is directly related to the scarcity versus abundance clash?
A. Arts and Literature
B. Religion
C. Language
D. Economic systems
12. Prohibition led to the development of ___________________.
A. The flapper
B. Speakeasies
C. Cars
D. Monster.com
13. The following statement is an example of what cultural clash in the 1920s?
A.
B.
C.
D.
In an increasingly consumer-based society, leisure and pleasure were now prized
over hard work and self-denial.
Scarcity to Abundance
Religion to Science
Substance to Image
Character to Personality
14. The arrival of millions of immigrants was seen as a threat to American culture by which
social organization?
A. The flapper
B. Ku Klux Klan
C. Modernist
D. Fundamentalists
15. The workforce that the new immigrants represented was crucial to the
__________________.
A. Economic system of American culture
B. Religion of American culture
C. Scarcity of jobs in Europe
D. Pushed the development of the “Made in America” label
16. The farmer, who had occupied a favored place in American mythology since the time
of Thomas Jefferson, rapidly gave way to the industrialist, the capitalist, and the
entrepreneur. The above statement represents what type of change in American culture?
A. New Ideas
B. Environmental Change
C. Diffusion
D. Language
17.Technology did not directly impact which element of culture?
A. Economic Systems
B. Religion
C. Language
D. Customs and traditions
18. The Flapper is a _________________.
A. Form of government
B. Religion
C. Social Organization
D. Language
19. Looking to the future is an example of how _____________ changed culture.
A. Technology
B. Religion
C. Environment
D. None of the above
20. Which statement best describes the culture of the 1920s?
A. Technology, new ideas, diffusion all impacted American culture during the 1920s.
B. Culture of the 1920s consisted of Gibson Girls as the role models for women, and
the development of the moving assembly line helped sell cars.
C. American culture during the 1920s was greatly affected by the attack on Pearl
Harbor, and it was known as a “day that will remain in infamy.”
D. The election of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson during this decade
promoted the development of European Alliances and created Transatlantic
diffusion
21. This quiz was _______________________________________.
A. The hardest quiz ever.
B. Easy, and I expected more from you Mr. Calder
C. K