Multiple Choice Chapter 22 Self-Quiz 2

. How did GM chairman Alfred P. Sloan attack Ford's dominant market position in the 1920s?

He made cars cheap and affordable.

He produced cars on assembly lines.

He paid his workers close to five dollars a day.

He introduced new models every year.

. The allocation of immigration slots in the National Origins Act of 1924 favored which of the following nations?

China

Russia

Germany

India

. The only group that benefited from 1924 immigration restrictions were

Mexicans.

Japanese.

Canadians.

Irish.

. Which of the following would have been the least likely target of the 1920s KKK in the United States?

a bootlegger

an Irish-Catholic immigrant

a German Jew

an Anglo-American industrialist

. Which of the following helps explain the popularity of jazz in Europe during the 1920s?

Black soldiers first introduced jazz to France during World War I.

French musicians had developed their own form of jazz in the 1890s.

American radio stations played jazz aggressively in European countries.

Records of American music had long been a major export to European countries.

. Which of the following was NOT a sport celebrity of the 1920s?

William Tilden

Bobby Jones

Jack Dempsey

Cassius Clay

. How did Hollywood movies portray the work of women in the corporate world?

as a rare opportunity to rise to a leadership position

as a hilarious misplacement of feminine talents

as a temporary stop on the way toward marriage and home

as the natural work environment for American women

. Aimee Semple McPherson advocated all the following EXCEPT:

prohibition.

tighter controls on immigration.

an equal rights amendment.

charity for the poor and needy.

. What did H. L. Mencken think of William Jennings Bryan?

Mencken admired Bryan's passion.

Mencken jealously eyed Bryan's popularity.

Mencken considered Bryan small-minded and ignorant.

Mencken feared Bryan's spiritual and political power.

. The Democratic challenger to Republican candidate Warren G. Harding in the 1920 presidential election was

Woodrow Wilson.

Al Smith.

James M. Cox.

Herbert Hoover.

. Why did Warren G. Harding's interior secretary Albert Fall spend one year in prison?

He got caught violating the new Prohibition laws.

He was convicted of sexual assault and harassment.

He had openly criticized the war during the Wilson administration.

He was caught accepting bribes in what became the Teapot Dome scandal.

. The most significant result of Germany's economic collapse in 1923 was

a rise in long-term unemployment.

deflation.

hyper-inflation.

a positive balance of trade.

. Before Anastazio Somoza began his 45-year-long dictatorship in the Central American country of Nicaragua he had served as

the commander of the U.S.-trained National Guard.

a nation's chief justice.

the leader of the opposition party.

the bishop of the Catholic church in Nicaragua.

. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930

eased the pain of the Great Depression briefly.

restored international trade to pre-Depression levels.

failed to protect the gold standard from erosion.

made international recovery even harder to accomplish.

. Whereas Secretary of State Frank Kellogg offered France an agreement to outlaw war, his French counterpart Aristide Briand had hoped for

a formal alliance.

the forgiveness of wartime debts.

access to American weapons technologies.

military support in Indochina.

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