Representative Americans (A201)

From 'Flappers' to 'Slackers': Youth Rebellion in Twentieth-Century America

Spring 1997

Intro Quiz

Directions: This quiz will introduce you to some of the ideas and topics that we will be considering during the semester. It will not be graded. For each of the questions below, choose the best answer(s) from the choices given.

1. F. Scott Fitzgerald is an author commonly associated with:

• the Blank Generation
• the Beat Generation
• the Lost Generation
• Generation X

2. If you're wearing a 'reet pleat, with a stuff cuff and a drape shape,' you are:

• a flapper
• a zooter
• a beatnik
• a hippie

3. Which famous 1960s radical is currently a state legislator with eyes on the mayoralty of a major U.S. city?

• Stokely Carmichael
• Robin Morgan
• Abbie Hoffman
• Tom Hayden

4. The term 'teen-ager' was coined in:

• 1924
• 1941
• 1953

5. Which of these was a violent faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)?

• Weatherman
• the Furies
• the Black Panther Party

6. What shocked their parents about the flappers was:

• their clothes
• their hair
• their 'modern' attitudes toward the opposite sex
• all of the above

7. Rebel Without a Cause depicted the dangers of juvenile delinquency in:

• the upper class
• the middle class
• the working class
• the poor

8. An act that is considered criminal only because of the age of the accused is called a:

• misdemeanor
• 'paper' crime
• suspended crime
• status crime

9. Prevailing attitudes toward youth are clearly embodied in which of the following American social institutions?

• the family
• the school
• the media
• the court

10. Mass college student protests against war and in support of free speech first occurred during the:

• 1930s
• 1940s
• 1950s
• 1960s

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