World History Questions
Chapter 15, Section 1: Postwar Uncertainty
Name: ___________________________
1. What belief of the Enlightenment was shattered
(no longer believed) by WWI?
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2. The period after WWI was a time of uncertainty
(How did this happen? What’s going to happen
next?). According to the text, this uncertainty was
reflected in unconventional (new) styles in what
three areas?
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3. According to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity,
which of the following three things is a constant
(always the same) and which are variables (can and
do change): time, space, speed of light.
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4. Whose ideas of motion and gravity did Einstein’s
Theory of Relativity replace?
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5. According to Freud, our minds have two parts:
the conscious (which we are aware of) and what
other part which we are normally not aware of?
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6. After WWI, writers and philosophers expressed
the idea of disillusionment. Which of the following
is NOT part of feeling disillusionment:
a. questioning the idea of progress (Are we
really moving forward as human beings?)
b. fear of the future (What’s next?)
c. doubting traditional religious beliefs and values
e. search for meaning of life
f. warm, fuzzy feeling and uncontrollable giggling
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7. Match the author with the work (for credit,
please write out both authors and titles):
1. T.S. Eliot
2. W.B. Yeats
3. Franz Kafka
4. James Joyce
5. F. Scott Fitzgerald
a. The Great Gatsby
b. The Trial, The Castle
c. The Wasteland (poem)
d. The 2nd Coming (poem)
e. Ulysses
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8. What was the name given to the American
artists living and working in Europe in the 1920’s
searching for the meaning of life after WWI?
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9. What did existentialists like Jean Paul Sartre
believe?
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10. What did artists after WWI want to depict
(show) in their paintings?
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11. Name two expressionist painters.
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12. Name two cubist painters.
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13. Realism is a form of art that attempts to show
the outer world just as it is (like a photograph).
What is the name of the art form that attempts to
depict (show) the world of dreams?
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14. Why do you suppose writers and painters after
WWI began exploring the unconscious? Don’t skip
these analysis questions! Think about it!
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15. Correct the following statement: After WWI,
composers stuck with traditional styles.
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16. In what three American cities did Jazz originate
(begin)?
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17. What group after WWI was especially willing to
break with the past and try out new ways of life?
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18. In what countries did women’s suffrage (right
to vote) become law after WWI?
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19. Why do you think many women demanded
more political and social freedoms after WWI?
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20. Besides gaining the right to vote, name six
other ways women’s lives changed after WWI.
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21. Name three ways cars were improved during
WWI.
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22. Name two ways cheaper and better cars
changed people’s lives after WWI.
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23. Who was the first person to fly an airplane
from North America to continental Europe?
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24. What American city had the first radio station?
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25. When was sound added to motion pictures?
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26. Name three technologies that were improved
during WWI that then became part of civilian (non
military) life after the war.
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27. Ironically, the new appliances pictured here did
not decrease the amount of time women spent
doing house chores. Why not?
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