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Chapter 25: Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment

Multiple Choice Quiz #1

Multiple Choice Quiz #1
This quiz reviews some of the topics in this chapter. The answer choices are randomized, so the quiz will be different every time you take it. For each question, select the button next to the answer you believe is correct. When you are done, click “Submit for Grade” in order to see how well you did.

This activity contains 10 questions.

	Which of these statements is FALSE?   Companionate marriages stressed equality between the partners. In 1920 more Americans lived in places with more than 2500 people than lived in places with fewer. The changing role of women was reflected in new styles of dress and cosmetics. During the 1920s a rising number of Americans believed in making divorces easier to attain. Family size increased during the 1920s.

	Which of these is mispaired?   Charles Lindbergh-airplane Henry Ford--assembly line D.W. Griffith--Birth of a Nation John B. Watson--radio Red Grange--football

	Leading sports figures of the 1920s included all of the following EXCEPT   Gene Tunney. Gertrude Ederle. Langston Hughes. Jack Dempsey. Robert Jones.

	Sinclair Lewis wrote all of the following EXCEPT   Elmer Gantry. It Can't Happen Here. Main Street. Arrowsmith. A Farewell to Arms.

	Which of these statements does NOT apply to fundamentalism?   Fundamentalists were mostly found among Protestants in the South. Fundamentalists were devoted to a literal interpretation of the King James Version of the Bible. Fundamentalism's greatest asset was William Jennings Bryan. Fundamentalists opposed laws to prohibit discussion of Darwin's theory of evolution in textbooks and classrooms. Urban sophisticates dismissed fundamentalists as boors and hayseeds.

	In a "companionate" family   the rearing of children is undertaken in a traditional, authoritarian manner. husbands and wives regard each other as equals regarding housework and occupations. divorce is not a viable alternative to marital difficulties. the mother attends to nearly all household duties. marriage was sacred.

	The right of women to vote did not drastically alter politics because   women failed to register to vote in large numbers. the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed sexual equality. most women began to concentrate on reforms regardless of partisanship. most women voted for candidates favored by their husbands. organizations like the KKK intimidated women and attempted to bar them from voting.

	The winner of the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Olympics who also played college football and professional baseball was   William Tilden. Babe Ruth. Jack Dempsey. Walter Camp. Jim Thorpe.

	The Ku Klux Klan declined by the late 1920s because   the federal government stepped in to curb their activity and defend the rights of the Klan's enemies. Americans grew more tolerant of immigrants. church leaders denounced the Klan. factionalism sprang up, and rival leaders squabbled over the dues collected from the membership. the Klan failed to influence state and local politics.

	Marcus Garvey advanced the notion that   God and Christ were black. blacks should push for integration into the full community. blacks should concentrate in Harlem. industrial education would allow African Americans to pull themselves by their boot straps. blacks should elect only other blacks to state legislatures and Congress.

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