Literature Multiple Choice Practice Problems

In the 1920s, one of the most important centers of Black culture was

• the North Side of Chicago

• Hollywood

• Harlem

• the Back Bay of Boston

• San Antonio

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Fashionable and forward-thinking young women of the 1920s were known as

• birds

• canaries

• cool cats

• dizzies

• flappers

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

The Hays Code

• started Prohibition

• ended Prohibition

• determined what could be shown in movies

• established rules for driving automobiles

• provided insurance for deposits made to banks

The 1920s were notable for a change in culture stemming from an increase in

• the percentage of the population who lived in cities

• crop production

• education in foreign languages

• the influence of Germany

• the speed of trains

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

An important factor in the culture of the 1920s was the Eighteenth Amendment, which

• established a federal income tax

• gave men the right to vote at age eighteen

• abolished slavery

• prohibited the sale of alcohol

• repealed the prohibition on the sale of alcohol

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

An important development of the 1920s that expanded the possibilities of life was

• the Anti-Trust Act

• the invention of television

• a new emphasis on sports

• the invention of the bicycle

• car ownership

The artistic movement of the 1920s, in which artists attempted to come to terms with world changes while also fostering change, was known as

• impressionism

• modernism

• realism

• surrealism

• art nouveau

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

• were never actually married

• lived off a large inheritance from Fitzgerald’s parents

• divorced and then married each other again

• ended up living in the Fitzgerald family home in Minnesota

• lived the kind of extravagant lifestyle portrayed in some of Fitzgerald’s novels

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

The narrator of The Great Gatsby is

• Nick Carraway

• Jay Gatsby

• T. J. Eckleburg

• Jordan Baker

• never identified by name

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

West Egg, where much of the novel is set, is

• a fashionable suburb of Connecticut

• the real name of a town where F. Scott Fitzgerald lived

• a middle-class village where Gatsby is the only rich inhabitant

• a place where people with “new money” live

• an island that is home to industrial magnates and former presidents

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9