View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5: The Fine and Lively Arts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jimmy Partland say is the importance of a job?
(a) To stimulate growth.
(b) To keep people out of trouble.
(c) To promote innovation.
(d) To make one feel useful.

2. What product did Benton manage after the Depression?
(a) Corn Flakes.
(b) Muzak.
(c) Volkswagen.
(d) The Boston Globe.

3. Corn farmers often switched to what agricultural product in the midst of the Depression?
(a) Barley.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Tobacco.

4. What metaphor does Arthur Robinson use to describe Wall Street in the 1920's?
(a) A Roman orgy.
(b) A candy store.
(c) A rigged casino.
(d) A private club.

5. What did Hiram Sherman do in The Cradle Will Rock?
(a) He was a stagehand.
(b) He was an actor.
(c) He directed it.
(d) He wrote it.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Buddy Blankenship in Sixteen Ton, what did coal companies often pay instead of money?

2. What did many of Arthur Robinson's friends say was the only reason to have money?

3. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?

4. What legendary artist of the twentieth century directed The Cradle Will Rock?

5. During the Depression, why did farmers systematically stop corn deliveries?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 238 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample