Volume D Period Introduction Quiz (1914-1945)

In 1920, what development changed social and political life for women?

They gained the right to vote.

In the interwar period, many Americans were influenced by Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud's theories about the human psyche. Which of the following describes one of Freud's most important theories?

The self is grounded in an "unconscious," where forbidden desires, traumas, and unacceptable emotions are stored.

The term "Great Migration" refers to

The large number of African Americans who moved out of the South and into northern industrial centers beginning in 1915

What is "double consciousness"?

Selected Answer:

W. E. B. Du Bois's term for African Americans' sense of "doubleness" when identifying themselves as simultaneously black and American—identities that were sometimes in conflict with one another

Which of the following events catalyzed critiques of the American justice system and galvanized support among writers and intellectuals for the rights of those who opposed American free enterprise?

The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Which of the following contributed to production of mass popular culture in the interwar period?

The radio

Most "high modernist" literature interprets modernity as:

An experience of loss, alienation, and ruin

Which of the following could be described as the key formal characteristic of high modernist works?

Selected Answer:

Fragmentation

Which of the following best describes the concept of "self-reflexivity" in a literary work?

A concern with its own nature as art and with questioning previous literary traditions

Modernist literary techniques had the effect of:

Decreasing the average length of published literary works

Most high modernists conceived of their aesthetic movement as:

International in nature, bringing together American and European culture

In the modern period, innovations in American theater often occurred as reactions against:

Popular Broadway productions