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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5: Public Servant - The City, Evictions, Arrests and Other Running Sores.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jane Yoder consider a luxury during the Depression?
(a) A hot meal.
(b) A trip to the movies.
(c) A new sweater.
(d) A bed.

2. What entertainment did Sally Rand invent?
(a) The fan dance.
(b) The penny arcade.
(c) The Charleston.
(d) The knock-knock joke.

3. What did Terkel's parents do for a living before the Depression?
(a) They were actuaries.
(b) They worked a farm.
(c) They ran a hotel.
(d) They worked for a newspaper.

4. At the beginning of The Fine and Lively Arts, Hiram Sherman speaks glowingly of drinking covert gin out of what?
(a) Flasks.
(b) Bowls.
(c) Soda bottles.
(d) Teacups.

5. According to Scoop Lankford, when did conditions finally improve in the prison?
(a) When Truman took office.
(b) When the WPA started.
(c) When the war started.
(d) When the rioting started.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young man in the final interview of Arrests and Other Running Sores do for a living?

2. What was Roosevelt trying to prevent with the Bank Holiday?

3. According to a quotation in the Introduction, what was the typical response to receiving a pink slip during the beginning of the Depression?

4. What did Bob Leary's father do during much of the Depression to avoid going crazy?

5. Who was the one black student in Terkel's college class?

(see the answer key)

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