Category 1
Prohibition led to the rise of _____________ and higher crime rates.
a. musicians
b. innovators
c. bootleggers
d. street artists
b. bootleggers
Who was NOT a silent film star?
a. Charlie Chaplin
b. Rudolf Valentino
c. Ernest Hemingway
d. William S. Hart
c. Ernest Hemingway
To create or promote an exaggerated or idealized image of something or someone.
a. demythologize
b. historicize
c. mythologize
d. debunk
c. mythologize
To release someone from a state or situation that limits freedom of thought or behavior.
a. liberate
b. imprison
c. restrain
d. detain
a. liberate
Some women, known as ____________ , shocked society by wearing short skirts and bobbed hair.
a. Victorian
b. Matron
c. Traditionalist
d. Flappers
d. Flappers
The 18th Amendment was eventually repealed by the____________
a. 19th Amendment
b. 20th Amendment
c. 21st Amendment
d. 22nd Amendment
c. 21st Amendment
By 1923, almost __________ licensed radio stations broadcast to more than _____________radio sets.
a. 300, 300,000
b. 400, 400,000
c. 500, 500,000
d. 600, 600,000
d. 600, 600,000
To believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same.
a. difference
b. stereotype
c. nuance
d. individuality
b. stereotype
Giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive.
a. wordy
b. concise
c. verbose
d. rambling
b. concise
Who starred in the Jazz Singer?
a. Al Jolson
b. Charles Hemingway
c. Sigmund Lindbergh
d. Rudolph Hart
a. Al Jolson
The 18th Amendment was repealed on what year?
a. 1930
b. 1931
c. 1932
d. 1933
d. 1933
__________________ was the first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
a. Charles Lindbergh
b. Ernest Hemingway
c. Sigmund Freud
d. Scott Fitzgerald
a. Charles Lindbergh
Elevated or raised in character, status, and spirit.
a. low
b. lofty
c. humble
d. modest
b. lofty
Competent or skilled in doing or using something.
a. novice
b. inept
c. proficient
d. incompetent
c. proficient
Movies to include sound that matched the action on the screen were known as _____________.
a. silence
b. taciturn
c. talkies
d. reticent
c. talkies
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
a. nihilism
b. interventionism
c. isolationism
d. internationalism
c. isolationism
The ___________________ ended World War I.
a. Treaty of Versailles
b. Treaty of Paris
c. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
d. Treaty of Berlin
a. Treaty of Versailles
Existing everywhere or involving everyone.
a. individual
b. restricted
c. universal
d. local
c. universal
A phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.
a. literal
b. idiom
c. standard
d. silence
b. idiom
The _______________ became the first movie to include sound matched to the action on the screen, and the era of “talkies” was born.
a. Jazz Singer
b. Soul Singer
c. Jazz Writer
d. Soul Writer
a. Jazz Singer
The action of forbidding something, especially by law.
a. authorization
b. prohibition
c. consent
d. allowance
b. prohibition
The price of the Model T dropped from $800 to _____.
a. $590
b. $490
c. $390
d. $290
d. $290
Tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.
a. optimistic
b. pessimistic
c. eccentric
d. democratic
b. pessimistic
Disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed.
a. inspired
b. idealized
c. optimistic
d. disillusioned
d. disillusioned
A famous Austrian psychologist who contributed to modernism.
a. Sigmund Freud
b. Ernest Hemingway
c. F. Scott Fitzgerald
d. Rudolph Valentino
a. Sigmund Freud