Literature
The Arts
Lost Generation
Dancing
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What author wrote the most popular novel in the 1920s?
F. Scott Fitzgerald who wrote the Great Gatsby- the setting was about the post war society known as the jazz age.
100
What was the first musical written, produced, and preformed by African Americans?
Shuffle Along.
100
What was the Lost Generation?
It was used to describe a group of American Writers who at the time were rebelling against what American had become by the 1920s.
100
Why was dancing so popular in the 20s?
It was a good way for the younger generation to have fun and escape from the thoughts of war.
100
What was another name for the Roaring Twenties?
The 1920's were also known as the Jazz Age.
200
Who was one of the first to write an auto biography of himself?
Adolf Hitler- he believed Jews were lower equality than the Christians
200
Who was Zora Neale Hurston?
She was a movie director who featured African Americans as her main characters.
200
What were the two groups of the Lost Generation?
Artists and writers.
200
What was the longest dance marathon?
It lasted 3 weeks even though they were banned because they took up too much time and they were expensive.
200
What did people take interest of in the 1920s?
They took interest in music; people listened to popular music and played the piano.
300
Who was the most important writer in the 20's?
Claude Makay, he wrote the poetry collection called "The Harlem Shadows"
300
Name the top three artists in the 1920s.
Marion Harris, Vernon Dalhart, Cliff Edwards.
300
How was the generation "lost"?
It's inherited values were no longer relevant.
300
What were some of the most popular dances in the 1920s?
The Basic Charleston, the Shimmy, Cake Walk, Foxtrot, Tango, and Waltz where the most popular at the time.
300
What did the African Americans use to express equality?
They used Jazz, music, and literature like poetry during the Harlem Renaissance.
400
He was a versatile writer and became a voice of the African Americans, who was he?
Langston Hughes
400
How did writers, artists, and pop culture of the 1920s affect the traditional ideas in the US?
It affected the US because a lot of people still use the radio and motion pictures today in society.
400
Who are some of the main members of the Lost Generation?
Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound.
400
Who was the main audience that would go out to dance?
The main audience that would dance was the youth because the older generation didn't like the idea of the dances that were invented in the 20s.
400
Where did most careers start?
Famous clubs like the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater located in New York.
500
Who were the first writers to be viewed in the 1920's?
The young writers were the first to be viewed as a whole generation.
500
What is a technique many painters used in the 1920s?
Many painters used surrealism, a form of art that made unrealistic things realistic.
500
What issues did the members of the Lost Generation struggle with most when they were writing or painting?
Most of the members of the Lost Generation struggled with gender roles in society, morality and their political views.
500
Which popular dance was the first one to be invented in the 20s?
The Charleston was the first dance to become popular because of its feature on two broadway shows.
500
What is Modernism?
Work of arts that are used to describe a certain art and literature.
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