Question

Why were young people who came of age in the first decades of the 1900s, as writers such as Francis (F.) Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway did, dubbed the Lost Generation?


They were the first generation of Americans to fight on the losing side of a war in the nation's long history.


They had lost so many of their friends on the battlefields of Europe during World War I.


They spent so much time living in various European countries that they always seemed to be lost.


They had lost their faith in the goodness of humanity as a result of the violence of World War I.

Answer 1

They had lost their faith in the goodness of humanity as a result of the

violence of World War I.

Option d

Explanation:

These were the result of the aftermath of the World War I. These young people who were at their twenties and thirties lost faith in patriotism, courage and humanity. They had seen death on a huge scale which instilled fear upon them and changed them to become aimless, reckless and focused on material wealth.

These people were mostly poets and writers who hailed from America but most of them emigrated to Europe. Francis (F.) Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were also part of this group who were called “lost generation”.