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Chapter 12 A Prospering Society
  1. All of the following improved the standard of living of most Americans during the 1920s EXCEPT __________.
   a) electrical appliances
   b) linoleum flooring
   c) indoor faucets
   d) television
  2. The popularity of automobiles contributed to the demise of __________.
   a) small, locally-owned stores
   b) roadside villages
   c) restaurants
   d) rubber production
  3. Buying on credit changed people's ideas about __________.
   a) money
   b) poverty
   c) debt
   d) advertising
  4. Which had the greatest impact on 1920s culture?
   a) sports
   b) music
   c) dance
   d) movies
  5. Which was a major influence on the music and dances that characterized the 1920s?
   a) African Americans
   b) the Lost Generation
   c) industrialization
   d) materialism
  6. Howard University professor Alain Locke urged African Americans to __________.
   a) establish a home in Africa
   b) embrace the materialism of America
   c) express themselves in literature
   d) participate in the Harlem Renaissance
  7. Fundamentalism, a movement that __________, gained popularity in the 1920s.
   a) opposed Prohibition
   b) affirmed the literal truth of the Bible
   c) primarily appealed to urban residents
   d) supported teaching evolution in the schools
  8. In the 1920s big-city crime escalated when gangsters began __________.
   a) bootlegging
   b) bribing public officials
   c) using illegal immigrant labor
   d) transporting illegal arms
  9. Which of these was NOT associated with the Ku Klux Klan?
   a) violence
   b) burning crosses
   c) hatred
   d) quotas
  10. The election of 1928 gave voters a choice between __________.
   a) rural tradition and big-city change
   b) religious creationism and scientific evolution
   c) the common man and big business
   d) intelligence and values


 

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