A.   prompte the relocation of civilians

B.   encourage the development of technology

C.   stifle the economy’s growth

D.   mobilize the country’s industries

A.   to streamline the immigration application process and reduce the wait time to enter the country

B.   to prohibit immigration from Asian countries and set quotas for other countries

C.   to encourage immigration from underrepresented nationalities to the United States

D.   to create a formal process of immigration that included testing for English-speaking abilities

A.   The country elected its first Republican president in nearly a decade.

B.   The war reduced the United States population through casualties.

C.   The war mobilized industry and employed more workers.

D.   The country had to print more money to finance the war effort.

A.   a European-based philosophy that privileged natural expression over aesthetic conventions

B.   a singularly focused belief that Christian ideology needed to be revived in contemporary literature

C.   a loosely related collection of international movements that challenged traditional authority

D.   an American phenomenon that recoiled from European modes of expression and sought new artistic oeuvres

A.   belief in Judeo-Christian values

B.   engagement in political struggles

C.   the use of literary traditions

D.   the role of popular culture in literature

A.   Women were featured more prominently in novels as the protagonists.

B.   The middle class replaces the impoverished as the primary focus in literature.

C.   Sexual elements became highly graphic and technical in modernist novels.

D.   Literary characters become individuals trapped in repressive cultures.

A.   the sinking of the Titanic

B.   the Great Depression

C.   the start of World War II

D.   the start of World War I

A.   Society is divided into two classes which are antagonistic to each other because one class controls the means of production and the other class provides the labor necessary to maintain industry.

B.   Society is composed of multiple castes that get increasingly smaller in population as the amount of personal wealth increases, which creates unrest in the lower classes who have no social mobility.

C.   Society is based on sacrifice whereby each person forfeits his or her personal rights for the sake of society’s benefit. All members of society gain communal rights instead of amassing personal wealth.

D.   Society is assembled from aggressive and exclusionary individuals who enter mutually exclusive pacts to create nations in which all social, political, and cultural aspects are adjudicated by the members.

A.   It showed the dangers of publicly espousing Communist beliefs.

B.   It revealed the racial bias extant in the American judicial system.

C.   It demonstrated the artificial division between church and state.

D.   It illustrated the progress women had made for equal rights.

A.   They were anxious that mass culture would reduce the power of the individual in art.

B.   They were distressed that mass culture was more accessible to society than other forms of culture.

C.   They were concerned that mass culture would create a robotic, passive population.

D.   They were worried that mass culture would reduce the ability to create high art.

A.   Writers’ cultural influence waned as scientists ascended to cultural prominence with their discoveries.

B.   Writers ignored scientific developments because science was considered irrelevant to literature.

C.   Scientists and writers were less able to communicate with one another as their views diverged.

D.   Writers adopted new scientific concepts with alacrity and extensively incorporated them in literature.

A.   Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy

B.   French symbolist literature

C.   Charles Darwin’s scientific theories

D.   nineteenth-century melodramas

A.   emphasis on stream-of-consciousness

B.   extensive repetition of a text’s theme

C.   highly structured rhyme schemes

D.   textual construction from fragments

A.   Novels were shortened in length.

B.   The short story rose to prominence.

C.   Poems became shorter through free verse.

D.   Prose and poetry became indistinguishable forms.

A.   They were dissatisfied by the New Deal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt that supported competing artists and writers.

B.   They believed that the United States lacked a tradition of high culture and was antagonistic to cultural expression.

C.   They were unable to financially support themselves in the United States because their writing was not commercial.

D.   They were forced out of the United States by a country suspicious of their leftist-leaning political views.