The Great Gatsby
Who is Gatsby's love interest?
Daisy Buchanan
What is Isaac Newton’s first law of motion?
An object’s inertia will allow it to keep going as long as there are no forces to stop it
What were the radical International Workers of the World (IWW) known as?
The Wobblies
What does Florine Stettheimer, Spring Sale at Bendel’s, parody?
The frenzied consumption of fashion and accessories at modern department stores
What is “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes about?
The Blues
What goes Gatsby reach out towards?
The Green Light/Daisy
Paramagnetic objects do not remain permanent _____?
Magnets
How many in six marriages in the 1920s ended in divorce?
One
What is the, I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, supposed to make the audience see and hear?
An illusion of rushing speed and echoing sound
What is frequently implied throughout “Rope” by Katherine Anne Porter?
The man’s unwillingness or inability to fully respect and remember his wife’s desires
How did Gatbsy Die?
He was shot by George Wilson (Myrtle's husband)
If you toss a stone up into the air, Earth’s gravity slows it down, the stone loses kinetic energy, but it gains what energy?
Gravitational potential energy
What act is 1882 barred Chinese immigrants from becoming naturalized citizens?
Chinese Exclusion Act
What is Thomas Hart Benton, America Today: City Activities with Dance Hall, a dramatic representation of?
Prohibition Era seen through the lens of urban popular entertainments
What literary genre does, Selections from “Advice to Young Men” by H. L. Mencken use?
Satire
What word did Tom Buchanan not like Daisy using towards him?
Hulking
Suppose we have an antenna that carries alternating current going up and down, this means what is happening with the electric field?
It is switching between pointing up and pointing down
Who was the most prolific bootlegger?
A German-born American named George Remus
What is James Van Der Zee, Couple, Harlem, supposed to represent?
Prosperity, pride, and participation in fashion and consumer culture
“Shall I Say, ‘My Son, You’re Branded’?” by Georgia Douglas Johnson, is a grim assessment of what?
American life for young Black children
What color was Gatsby's car?
Rich cream color/Yellow
What do your fingers represent in the right-hand rule?
A wire carrying current in a certain direction that creates loops of magnetic field around the wire
What town was a hotbed for the revitalized Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Muncie (city located in central Indiana fifty miles northeast of Indianapolis)
What art form did Georgia O’Keeffe (The Lawrence Tree) commonly use?
Biomorphic abstraction
What is a clear suggestion about the Jazz Age (primarily about taste) in Excerpts from “Echoes of the Jazz Age” by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1931)?
Young people, freed from the confines of a stuffy Victorianism and genteel morality, were able to cultivate new styles and customs