Social Science
Which nickname was given to the period of racial violence in 1919?
a. “Yellow Fall”
b.“The Hot Months”
c. “The Long Summer”
d. “Red Summer”
e. “The Disruption Season”
d. “Red Summer”
If you wanted to make a thin, light line, it would be best to use
a. charcoal
b. hard pencil
c. soft pencil
d. pastel
e. watercolor
b. hard pencil
The “model” rhythm section was standardized by
a. Fletcher Henderson
b. Duke Ellington
c. Louis Armstrong
d. Count Basie
e. Lil Hardin
d. Count Basie
Who described the impact of entrepreneurs as a type of “creative destruction”?
a. Adamski
b. Okun
c. Pareto
d. Schumpeter
e. Thompson
d. Schumpeter
The American flag left on the Moon has turned white over time because it was ___________________.
a. exposed to high winds
b. covered in lunar dust
c. bleached by intense UV radiation in sunlight
d. damaged by micrometeorites
e. exposed to freezing temperatures
c. bleached by intense UV radiation in sunlight
Who helped pioneer the idea of using radio as a “household utility”?
a. Herbert Hoover
b. David Sarnoff
c. Calvin Coolidge
d. Franklin Roosevelt
e. Henry Ford
b. David Sarnoff
What characteristic BEST defines the flapper style of the jazz age?
a. long, corseted dresses and elaborate hats
b. short hair, loose dresses, and high heels
c. elaborate wigs and heavy gowns
d. tight-fitting bodices and full skirts
e. modest clothing with floor-length skirts
b. short hair, loose dresses, and high heels
One of the earliest publishers of printed blues tunes was
a. Bessie Smith
b. Robert Johnson
c. W. C. Handy
d. Huddie Ledbetter
e. Blind Lemon Jefferson
c. W. C. Handy
What amendment, giving women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920?
a. Seventeenth Amendment
b. Eighteenth Amendment
c. Nineteenth Amendment
d. Twentieth Amendment
e. Twenty First Amendment
c. Nineteenth Amendment
Which quantity is conserved in every electrical interaction?
a. Mass
b. Charge
c. Voltage
d. Potential Energy
e. Current
b. Charge
Which of the following was the major health crisis that affected President Wilson during his campaign to promote the Treaty of Versailles?
a. tuberculosis
b. heart attack
c. influenza relapse
d. stroke
e. pneumonia
d. stroke
Which artistic group focused on depicting the everyday lives of working-class people in New York City?
a. the Futurists
b. the Impressionists
c. the Dadaists
d. the Ashcan school
e. the Cubists
d. the Ashcan school
The piece described as “the theme song of the roaring twenties” was composed by
a. Eubie Blake
b. Sissle Noble
c. Arthur Gibbs
d. James P. Johnson
e. Flournoy Miller
d. James P. Johnson
Which of the following is a focus of microeconomics?
a. quantitative models that explain the behavior of small firms
b. precise economic theory not possible at the macroeconomic level
c. money markets and their effect on the broader economy
d. market interaction of supply and demand
e. analysis of monetary and fiscal policy
d. market interaction of supply and demand
Which is known as a device that accelerates electrons and then magnetically deflects them onto different parts of a screen to create an image?
a. Liquid crystal display (LCD)
b. Light-emitting diode (LED) screen
c. Plasma display panel
d. Cathode ray tube
e. Digital projector
d. Cathode ray tube
What contributed to the farming crisis in the 1920s?
a. droughts only
b. falling crop prices and high debt
c. labor strikes
d. high foreign demand
e. industrial farming laws
b. falling crop prices and high debt
How did art historian Linda Nochlin describe Spring Sale at Bendel’s?
a. as a highly technical masterpiece of modernism
b. as a dark critique of consumerism in the 1920s
c. as having a “camp sensibility” with theatrical and exaggerated qualities
d. as an example of strict formalism in painting
e. as a rejection of both fine art and popular culture
c. as having a “camp sensibility” with theatrical and exaggerated qualities
An _______________ starts before the downbeat of a measure.
a. anacrusis
b. tessitura
c. tenor
d. rest
e. cross-rhythm
a. anacrusis
Recessions and expansions generally occur at least partly due to _____.
a. short-run inflexibility of prices
b. long-run inflexibility of prices
c. the rate of inflation
d. monetary policy failures
e. changes in congressional regulation
a. short-run inflexibility of prices
The first electric street rail system was installed in which city?
a. Richmond, Virginia
b. Seattle, Washington
c. Chicago, Illinois
d. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
e. Atlanta, Georgia
a. Richmond, Virginia
The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924 did which of the following?
a. supported displaced European war refugees
b. established strict quotas limiting immigration from specific countries
c. encouraged Asian immigration
d. promoted multilingual education
e. banned all religious groups from entering the U.S.
b. established strict quotas limiting immigration from specific countries
In what exhibition was Boy Stealing Fruit featured in 1929?
a. “Early American Art”
b. “Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans”
c. “American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man”
d. “Art of the Immigrant Experience”
e. “Modern Art Now”
b. “Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans”
Rhapsody in Blue opens with a glissando; which composition ends with one?
a. “Burlesque”
b. the second movement of Ravel’s Violin Sonata
c. Sicilienne
d. La création du monde
e. “My Blue Heaven”
b. the second movement of Ravel’s Violin Sonata
All of these are true of a bond investment EXCEPT
a. the bond can be sold to another purchaser before the date of maturity
b. the government can usually borrow at lower interest rates than private companies
c. the buyer assumes the risk of a borrower defaulting on repayment obligations
d. the bond’s value can change due to fluctuating market interest rates
e. the longer the maturity of a bond, the lower the risk from bond price changes
e. the longer the maturity of a bond, the lower the risk from bond price changes
What did Hans Christian Oersted discover in 1820?
a. Stationary electrons create magnetic fields.
b. Electricity and magnetism are unrelated.
c. Protons are responsible for all magnetism.
d. Magnetic fields only exist in magnets.
e. Moving electrons create magnetic fields.
e. Moving electrons create magnetic fields.