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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: God Bless' the Child.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Blackie Gold do in the CCC during the Depression?
(a) He wrote for a national labor journal.
(b) He assessed people on relief.
(c) He maintained national forests.
(d) He performed on the radio.

2. What did Bob Leary's father do during much of the Depression to avoid going crazy?
(a) Redo the upholstery of a car.
(b) Paint a house.
(c) Have an affair.
(d) Fish at a nearby lake.

3. What strange job does Terkel get right after college?
(a) Circus booker.
(b) Dustbin salesman.
(c) Advertising copy editor.
(d) Radio performer.

4. What did many of Arthur Robinson's friends say was the only reason to have money?
(a) To provide for one's family.
(b) To make more money.
(c) To have influence.
(d) To give to the poor.

5. Who was the one black student in Terkel's college class?
(a) Marcus Garvey's grandson.
(b) An African prince.
(c) An ancestor of Frederick Douglass.
(d) Medgar Evers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not an implement that interviewers in The March say was used to disperse marchers?

2. What does Diane personally think about the suffering of the 1930's in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?

3. According to Terkel in the Introduction, what voice dominated the radio alongside Roosevelt's during the Depression?

4. Where did Arthur Robinson keep thousands of dollars during the bank holiday?

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

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