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Which best defines a "talkie" during the 1920s?
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a film with sound
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In the 1920s, mass media helped popularize which of these sports heroes?
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Babe Ruth
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What feature did radio in the 1920s offer that other inventions did not offer?
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People could listen to music in real time.
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Why were prominent American writers of the 1920s called the "lost generation"?
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They had trouble adjusting to life in the postwar era.
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Both Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were
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pessimistic novelists.
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A major theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald's work was the idea that the post-war world
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was empty and meaningless.
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A major change women experienced during the post-World War I era was that they started
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working outside the home.
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Clara Bow impacted other 1920s-era women by
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representing the fashion and rebellion of the era.
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Which statement best explains the relationship between new forms of entertainment in the 1920s and the fads of the era?
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The availability of radio and film helped spread the word about new fads.
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Two women who were writers during the in the 1920s were
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Edith Wharton and Willa Cather.
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How did Henry Ford's Model T contribute to the culture of the Roaring Twenties?
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The Model T stimulated an overall feeling of prosperity
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Which statement best explains how going to work affected women during and after World War I?
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Working gave women a newfound independence, so they continued to work in different kinds of jobs.
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Which is true about the "lost generation"?
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They did not think the lifestyle of the 1920s was desirable.
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What new form of entertainment helped to popularize ragtime and jazz in the early 1900s?
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radio
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A form of rebellion specifically for women during the Jazz Age was
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cutting their hair.
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Why was the 1920s called the Roaring Twenties?
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The decade ushered in an era of prosperity and rebellion.