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Roaring 20s Cultural Icons
Test Description: Important Cultural Icons of the 1920s 1930s
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1) My paintings depicted flowers, nature, urban scenes, and eventually the Southwest. I lost my eyesight late in life, so I quit painting and began to work with clay. I owned my own art museum. Who am I?
A
John Steinbeck
B
Georgia O’Keeffe
C
Aaron Copland
D
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2) I was a Nobel Prize winner for Literature. I wrote the novels Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath. I wrote both fiction and nonfiction. Who am I?
A
George Gershwin
B
F. Scott Fitzgerald
C
Aaron Copland
D
John Steinbeck
3) I was a novelist who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920’s. The Great Gatsby was one of my most famous novels. I was featured on a postage stamp. I was the namesake of a distant family member, Francis Scott Key, who wrote “The Star Spangled Banner.”
A
George Gershwin
B
Georgia O’Keeffe
C
F. Scott Fitzgerald
D
Aaron Copland
4) was a composer who wrote uniquely American music. I went to the University of North Carolina and then to Paris to study music. I wrote “Rodeo Hoedown” and “Appalachian Spring.” Who am I?
A
George Gershwin
B
Georgia O’Keeffe
C
Aaron Copland
D
F. Scott Fitzgerald
5) was a famous composer of American music and a pianist. I like to write music for both comedies and symphonies. My parents immigrated to the US from Russia. Two of my songs were “Porgy and Bess” and “Rhapsody in Blue.” Who am I?
A
George Gershwin
B
F. Scott Fitzgerald
C
George Gershwin
D
Aaron Copland
6) I was known as “Empress of Blues.” Some of my most famous songs were “Gimme a Pigfoot” and “Down Hearted Blues.” I began performing in honky tonks and eventually made $2000 a week! Who am I?
A
Langston Hughes
B
Louis Armstrong
C
Bessie Smith
D
Jacob Lawrence
7) I was a young, blacan cultural roots in my poetry. I moved to NYC during the Great Migration. Who am I?
A
Louis Armstrong
B
Duke Ellington
C
Jacob Lawrence
D
Langston Hughes
8) was a painter who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration North through art. I received a $1500 fellowship for this series of paintings. Who am I?
A
Louis Armstrong
B
Jacob Lawrence
C
Duke Ellington
D
Bessie Smith
9) My nickname was Satchmo. I sang and played the trumpet. Two of my songs were “What a Wonderful World” and “Hello Dolly.” Who am I?
A
Jacob Lawrence
B
Bessie Smith
C
Louis Armstrong
D
Duke Ellington
10) I was a painter, writer, producer, pianist, orchestra leader, jazz composer, and a singer. I played at the Cotton Club. I sold refreshments at baseball games and liked Babe Ruth. One song was “It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing.” Who am
A
Duke Ellington
B
Louis Armstrong
C
Jacob Lawrence
D
Bessie Smith
11) As the literary editor for 'The Crisis,' she supported many new voices during the Harlem Renaissance. She also authored novels, essays and poems. Who am I?
A
Bessie Smith
B
Jessie Redmon Fauset
C
Countee Cullen
D
Zora Neale Hurston
12) African American cultural anthropologists and writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated the African American culture of the rural South. Who am I?
A
Jessie Redmon Fauset
B
Countee Cullen
C
Bessie Smith
D
Zora Neale Hurston
13) African American poet, one of the finest of the Harlem Renaissance. Who am I?
A
Jessie Redmon Fauset
B
Zora Neale Hurston
C
Countee Cullen
D
Bessie Smith
14) Improved the automobile; changed the mechanization of car manufacturing with the use of the assembly line
A
Alexander Graham Bell
B
Woodrow Wilson
C
Thomas Edison
D
Henry Ford
15) Believed there was a link between building a bike and building a flying machine; invented the airplane
A
Woodrow Wilson
B
Henry Ford
C
Wrong Brothers
D
Wright Brothers
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