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pp. 315-316, 318-319, 323-342, 347-353, 360-361,  CHAPTER SEVEN IN WHO BUILT AMERICA – Quiz, Wednesday, March 30

On Wednesday, March 30th, there will be a timed quiz on ten of the following questions. Make sure you can answer all the questions.

1. Who said the "chief business of the American people is business"?

A) Henry Ford. B) Marcus Garvey. C) Calvin Coolidge. D) Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. E) Herbert Hoover

2. Between 1890-1930, the average size of the American household:

A) Increased. B) Decreased. C) Stayed about the same.

3. Which sector of the economy grew slowest in the 1920s?

A) Manufacturing. B) Construction. C) Service. D) Finance.

4. The average real earning of workers in the 1920s:

A) Increased. B) Decreased. C) Stayed about the same.

5. The gap between rich and poor in the 1920s.

A) Increased. B) Decreased. C) Stayed about the same.

6. By 1929, what fraction (percentage) of American families owned a car.

A) 1/5. B) 1/3.. C) 2/3.. D) ½. E) 3/4.

7. From 1900-1930, the percentage of married women working:

A) Increased slightly. B) Doubled. C) Declined slightly. D) Decline by 50%. E) Stayed about the same.

8. In the1920s, more women were likely to be employed as:

A) Management. B) Lawyers. C) Doctors. D) Domestics. E) Midwives.

9. After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, women voted in _________ numbers than/as men throughout the 1920s.

A) Greater. B) Lesser. C. About the same.

10. Marcus Garvey founded the:

A) The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). B) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP). C) The Congress of racial Equality (CORE). D) The Pan African Congress. E) The Harlem Renaissance.

11. Marcus Garvey advocated:

A) Pan Africanism. B) Integrated schools, neighborhoods and business. C) Interracial marriage.

12. Most African-American voters in the 1920s cast their ballots for:

A) Democrats. B) Republicans. C) Socialists. D) Black nationalists.

13. Who, of the following, was NOT one of the intellectuals/authors/artists of the Harlem Renaissance?

A) Langston Hughes. B) Zora Neale Hurston. C) Alain Locke. D) Nella Larson. E) Marcus Garvey.

14. Who edited the NAACP’s magazine The Crisis?

A) Langston Hughes. B)W.E.B. DuBois C) Alain Locke. D)Booker T. Washington. E) Marcus Garvey.

15. Which presidential candidate was attacked in the 1928 election as the candidate of foreigners and drinkers?

A) Calvin Coolidge. B) Franklin Roosevelt. C) Al Smith. D) Herbert Hoover. E) Joseph Stalin.

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