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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Bonnie Laboring Boy, Three Strikes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did an industrialist ask Gordon Baxter to destroy for him?
(a) A union card.
(b) Anti-union pamphlets.
(c) Dossiers on his workers.
(d) A cudgel used to kill a union leader.

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

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

4. Which movement sought to replace the American Federation of Labor in the 1930's?
(a) The Wobblies.
(b) The CIO.
(c) The Communists.
(d) The Catholic Workers.

5. Why was the Michigan governor Frank Murphy branded weak-willed regarding the sit-in strike?
(a) He did not send in troops.
(b) He came out in support of the union.
(c) He refused to comment on the strike.
(d) He disappeared from public after condemning the strike.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Blackie Gold do in the CCC during the Depression?

2. Where does the sit in of Three Strikes take place?

3. In a quote in the Introduction, how does the speaker describe the socioeconomic relationship between blacks and whites during the Depression?

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

5. Which of the following is not a periodical mentioned by Terkel in the Introduction?

(see the answer key)

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