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CHAPTER 25 1. What was the traditional courtship procedure used during the late nineteenth century in which the gentlemen would visit the woman’s parents’ home, where they couple would remain with the parents nearby if not actually participating in the social event? 2. What became the new courtship ritual of the 1920s with the advent of the car in which the young man only stopped at the woman’s home to “pick up” before the two went off, free of parental supervision to whatever diversion they wished? 3. What was the first motion picture produced in 1903 and only about eight minutes long but packed with action? 4. What were the movie houses of the 1920s called that were usually converted stores and charged only 5 cents for admission? 5. What was the first significant “talkie” that debuted in 1927 and starred Al Jolson? 6. Who was the greatest film star of the 1920s know for his characterization of the sad-eyed little tramp with his toothbrush moustache and his cane, tight frock coat, and baggy trousers that became famous throughout the world? 7. What was the first animated cartoon that appeared in the 1920s starring Mickey Mouse? 8. Who was the producer and creator of the first animated cartoon starring Mickey Mouse? 9. What was the suburb of Los Angeles that became the movie capital of the 1920s? 10. What was the first commercial radio station that began broadcasting in 1920? 11. What city was radio’s first commercial station located in? 12. What was the first nation-wide radio network that was created in 1926? 13. What was the government agency that was created in 1934 to distribute the wavelengths to different stations to prevent interference and to revoke the licenses of any stations that did not operate in the public interests? 14. Who was the Native American considered one of the best all-round athletes of the twentieth century, having won the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Olympics, played major league baseball, and helped establish the National Football League? 15. Who was the foremost college football player of the 1920s? 16. What college did the foremost college football player represent? 17. Who was the prized heavyweight boxing champion of the 1920s?

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18. What was the nickname of the prized heavyweight boxing champion of the 1920s? 19. Who was the swimmer who became the first woman to swim the English Channel, accomplishing the feat in 14 hours and 30 minutes, which was faster than any of the four men who had previously made it across? 20. Who dominated the game of baseball during the 1920s and changed the game from one dominated by pitching to one in which hitting was more greatly admired? 21. What was the nickname of the most dominant baseball player of the 1920s? 22. For what team did the most dominant baseball player of the 1920s hit 54 homeruns in the first year he played for them? 23. The disillusionment of American writers after the Great War is illustrated by what American poet, who stopped talking about the American Renaissance and wrote instead about the “botched civilization” that resulted from the war? 24. What was the term coined by which the pessimists of the 1920s soon became known? 25. What writer of the 1920s became the symbol of the “lost generation”? 26. What was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1920 novel that earned him his initial fame as an author and was especially popular among college students? 27. What was the most famous novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a modern millionaire who was course, unscrupulous, jaded, and in love with another man’s wife? 28. What many of the writers of the 1920s became when they fled the confines of the United States to frequent the cafés of European cities such as Rome, Berlin, and especially Paris? 29. Who was probably the most talented expatriate writer of the 1920s who had served in the Italian army during the Great War until having been wounded? 30. What was Ernest Hemingway’s most famous novel published in 1926 and depicting the café life of the American expatriates? 31. What was Hemingway’s novel published in 1929 in which he drew upon his personal military experience to describe the confusion and horror of war? 32. Who was the Baltimore newspaperman and founder of one of the greatest magazines of the 1920s? 33. What was one of the greatest magazines founded during the 1920s by the era’s great cynical writer? 34. Who was probably the most famous author of the 1920s? 35. What was Sinclair Lewis’s 1920 novel about the ignorance and bigotry of small town life in America? 36. What was Sinclair Lewis’s 1922 novel about what many considered the typical American businessman of the 1920s? 37. Who is considered one of the great advertising “geniuses” of the 1920s?

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38. What was the best-selling book of the 1920s that suggested Jesus Christ was the best advertising genius of all time? 39. Who was the person most associated with the growth of the automobile during the 1920s by mass producing a car of a simple design that could be made cheaply enough to put them within reach of the ordinary citizen? 40. Who was the first person to manufacture a good, low-priced automobile? 41. What was the automobile first designed in 1908 that looked like a box on wheels that was being mass produced at the rate of 9,000 a day by 1925, priced below $300, and available only in black? 42. Who made the first human flight in 1903? 43. Where did the first human flight take place in 1903? 44. Who was the first pilot to make a solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic from New York City to Paris in 1927 to become a national hero? 45. What was the name of the plane that was used on the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic from New York City to Paris in 1927?