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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: Concerning the New Deal, An Unreconstructed Populist, Peroration.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In her interview, what does Diana Morgan say never interested her?
(a) The suffering of others.
(b) Communism.
(c) Political struggle.
(d) The accumulation of money.

2. Why did Martin DeVries hate Roosevelt?
(a) Roosevelt attacked the free market system.
(b) Roosevelt tried to pack the court.
(c) Roosevelt got America into World War II.
(d) Roosevelt came from money.

3. How does Diana Morgan describe herself at the beginning of her interview?
(a) A woman of ill repute.
(b) A southern belle.
(c) A lost cause.
(d) A habitual instigator.

4. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?
(a) Jazz musicians.
(b) Corn growers.
(c) Auto workers.
(d) Writers.

5. Why does Robin Langston think his family was unaffected by the Depression?
(a) They never bought on credit.
(b) They never had money to begin with.
(c) Theirs was the most popular restaurant in town.
(d) Black communities were not affected by the Depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jim Sheridan travel to the Bonus March?

2. What demagogic figure of the 1930's did Dawn McCullough despise?

3. In Man and Boy, what does Clifford Burke credit with black men's survival in the Depression?

4. Besides attempting to change the makeup of the Supreme Court, what Roosevelt decision does James Farley say alienated people in the administration?

5. Why did C. Wright Patman push for the impeachment of Hoover's Treasury Secretary?

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