20thB-Scavenger+Hunt

Art and Music: 1) What is Art Deco's mediums? 2) How is post-impressionism different from impressionism? 3) Where is composer John Cage from? 4) How would pop art be described? 4) Where did pop art originate from?

History: 1. What made World War I especially deadly? 2. What gave America the opportunity to emerge as an economic giant after World War I? 3. What was Hitler's ultimate goal in trying to conquer Europe? 4. Explain two policies of the United States during the Cold War designed to contain communism. 5. What technological advances has mankind made in the last decade of the 20th century?

Non-Poetry 1. About how long did the Modern period last, and what two events were the primary causes of this era's beginning and end? 2. What two prominent Modern writers had works that dealt with similar, controversial content? 3. What two Modern works have the theme of criticism against traditional values of the culture? 4. How is the Theater of the Absurd reflected in Post-Modern works? 5. How are the Modernist movement and the Post-modernist movement similar?

British Poetry 1. How many British Poetry movements were there in the 20th century? 2. How many poetry movements were there in the 20th century? 3. What did the Imagists favor in poetry? 4. Which group of writers did the Movement consist of? 5. When was the British Poetry Revival?

Non-British Literature 1. What was the Lost Generation, and what was its influence on literature? 2. What was Freud's pyscholgy philosophy that influenced Modernism? 3. The name of the Camus essay that introduced Absurdism as a literary style was: 4. The Beat movement was most heavily influenced by what novel? 5. Who was the first African female to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?