The Roaring Twenties
Final TEST
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Date:
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Directions: Please transfer all answers to the answer sheet. Write your name on BOTH the test
booklet and the answer sheet, turn in both. Please do NOT CHEAT. We absolutely HATE it!
Multiple Choice. Place the letter of the BEST answer in the blank on the answer sheet.
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The Roaring Twenties were called that for all of the following reasons EXCEPT ONE
people were trying to overcome the horror of World War I
there were so many new inventions and accessibility to cars
people smoked, drank, rebelled against the previous generation
there was a pending economic depression headed toward them
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What happened when over 400,000 African-Americans migrated to the North?
they attained good factory jobs
they attended universities
they were met with riots and racism
they were forced to return to the South
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The Palmer raids targeted all of the following groups EXCEPT ONE
Radicals
Immigrants
Anarchists
English-Americans
___ 4. “The Red Scare” was a movement that showed how much our nation feared the
possibility of peasants overthrowing our government and establishing
A. Anarchism
B. Idealism
C. Communism
D. Zionism
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Sacco and Vanzetti were two men whose execution demonstrated that
the United States was fearful of foreigners
the Supreme Court was fair and thorough
the United States welcomed honest immigrants
the Justice System is always appropriate to the situation
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Russian
Serbian
Italian
French
The Teapot Dome Scandal involved government officials making money from
oil deposits
gold and silver
wheat exchanges
insider trading in stocks
___ 8. Which President was in office during the Teapot Dome Scandal?
A. Calvin Coolidge
B. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
C. Herbert Hoover
D. Warren G. Harding
___ 9. Which President “cleaned up” after the Teapot Dome Scandal?
A. Calvin Coolidge
B. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
C. Herbert Hoover
D. Warren G. Harding
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Which President said, “The business of America IS business”?
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Warren G. Harding
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The Flappers were called Flapper because
their bugle beads flipped up and down as they danced
their triceps were weak and flapped about as they danced
their hair was long and flowed up and down their backs
their pantyhose flapped down around their ankles
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Flappers, as a group, were known for all of the following activities EXCEPT ONE
smoking
drinking
studying at college
wanting independence
bobbing or cutting their hair short
___ 13. Of the following which is NOT a rebellious dance of the 1920s?
A. Charleston
B. Lindy Hop
C. Moon Walk
D. Tango
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How many radio stations were broadcasting by the end of the decade (the 1920s)?
two
seventy
twenty-five
eight hundred
___ 15. Which of the following was NOT a fad of the 1920s?
A. eating live goldfish
B. body tattooing and piercing
C. flagpole sitting
D. marathon dancing
E. playing Mahjongg
F. using a Ouija Board
___ 16. Who was Marcus Garvey?
A. the man who ate the most goldfish
B. a famous barber who bobbed women’s hair
C. the man responsible for the Teapot Dome Scandal
D. a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
E. spoke for African-American pride
___ 17. The Ku Klux Klan was at its peak during the 1920s,
who is NOT a group that they targeted with their hatred?
A. divorced people
B. African-Americans
C. Catholics of any color
D. white factory workers
E. Jews and immigrants
___ 18. What was the Cotton Club?
A. a famous jazz bar
B. a weapon the KKK used
C. an invention to harvest cotton faster
D. a secret type of alcoholic drink
___ 19. Which of the following was NOT a famous jazz musician of the 1920s?
A. Duke Ellington
B. Louis Armstrong
C. Usher
D. “Jelly Roll” Morton
___ 20. Who was Amelia Earhart?
A. the first woman to fly solo in an airplane
B. the first woman to swim across the English Channel
C. the first woman to run a marathon competitively
D. the first woman to run for political office
___ 21. Who was Charles Lindbergh?
A. an Olympic athlete
B. a home run king
C. assembly line inventor
D. nonstop NYC to Paris pilot
___ 22. What was “Prohibition”?
A. no one in the US could buy, sell or transport alcohol
B. women were not allowed to wear skimpy bathing suits
C. women were not allowed to vote in political elections
D. men were forbidden to travel to Communist countries
___ 23. What was the 21st Amendment to the Constitution?
A. no one in the US could buy, sell or transport alcohol
B. it was the act used to try to enforce Prohibition
C. no one could challenge anti-morality laws
D. it repealed or took away Prohibition
___ 24. What was the Volstead Act?
A. no one in the US could buy, sell or transport alcohol
B. it was the act used to try to enforce Prohibition
C. no one could challenge anti-morality laws
D. it repealed or took away Prohibition
___ 25. What allowed organized crime to become so very well established?
A. the Teapot Dome Scandal
B. the Red Scare
C. Flappers
D. Prohibition
___ 26. What was a “speakeasy”?
A. the slang used by young people
B. secret bars serving alcohol
C. a new method to learn English
D. Al Capone’s automatic weapon
___ 27. What was the making of illegal alcohol called for the most part?
A. Amazing Alcohol
B. Bathtub Gin
C. Cotton Mouth
D. Dandelion Wine
___ 28. Which gangster, or organized crime boss, was responsible for the St. Valentine’s
Day Massacre of seven men and who was only later arrested for tax evasion?
A. John Dillinger
B. Paul Giotta
C. Al Capone
D. Donald Rumsfeld
___ 29. Who was John Scopes?
A. a man arrested and tried for teaching evolution in public schools
B. a lawyer who held a funeral for John Barleycorn (or alcohol )
C. the microscope inventor during the 1920s boom of inventions
D. Darwin’s personal assistant and confidant in the Galapagos
___ 30. What was Fundamentalism?
A. a particular way to interpret scientific data in order to frame a report
B. a very conservative religious movement against the immorality of the ‘20s
C. a really basic way to teach dance lessons very quickly to very clumsy students
D. a governmental movement to revoke the voting rights of mob bosses and crime figures
___ 31. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A. the government rebuilding certain sections of New York City in time for World’s Expo
B. when Josephine Baker was banned from performing her banana dance in public areas
C. African-Americans working side by side with their white counterparts to create art
D. flowering of African-American literature and art in the 1920s, mainly New York City
___ 32. Where did Josephine Baker find acceptance for her style of dance and vaudeville?
A. France
B. Africa
C. Germany
D. southern US
___ 33. What music is typically attributed to this time period and to members of the
Harlem Renaissance?
A. polka
B. jazz
C. rap
D. classical
___ 34. What was the real stylized art movement called during the 1920s?
A. cubism
B. abstract art
C. surrealism
D. art deco
___ 35. What one event ENDED the roar of the “Roaring Twenties”?
A. Fundamentalism
B. Prohibition
C. Stock Market Crash
D. Automobile Assembly Line
Example of art of the ‘20s
The Roaring Twenties
Final TEST
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Name:
Date:
Humanities’ Teacher Name:
Directions: Please transfer all answers to the answer sheet. Write your name on BOTH the test
booklet and the answer sheet, turn in both. Please do NOT CHEAT. I absolutely HATE it!
Multiple Choice
EXTRA CREDIT:
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(Who is in the car picture on page 4?)
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(What song did Klipspringer of The Great
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(Who wrote “Juke Box Love Song”?)
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(Who was Billy Sunday?)
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(Name the real all Black town in Florida)
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Gatsby sing?)