Roaring Twenties

Roaring Twenties

8th Grade

15 Qs

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Roaring Twenties

Roaring Twenties

Assessment

Quiz

History

8th Grade

Easy

Created by

Laura Ganassa

Used 14+ times

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15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Name for the 1920s, because of the popularity of jazz-a new type of American music that combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtime

Flappers

Jazz Age

Great Migration

Teapot Dome

2.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The _____ _______ is the fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Part of the "lost generation" of American modernists, her Paris apartment was a pilgrimage site for authors, painters, etc. (incl. Picasso, Hemingway, and others).

Gertrude Stein

Ethel Waters

Zelda Fitzgerald

Zora Neale Hurston

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

WEB DuBois

Ethel Waters

Duke Ellington

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Langston Hughes is:

African American poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music.

African American pianist, composer, arranger, and band leader from New Orleans.

African American writer who wanted to save African American folklore. She traveled across the South collecting stories.

Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI.

6.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is the first name of Fitzgerald's wife? She was an artist and flapper who challenged traditional values in the 1920's.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

An artist from New Orleans who bridged the gap between the piano styles of ragtime and jazz, and was the first important jazz composer.

Langston Hughes

Ethel Waters

Jelly Roll Morton

Duke Ellington

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