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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Old Families, Member of the Chorus, High Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Bob La Follette's signature issue in the 1928 election?
(a) Military isolation.
(b) Wall Street reform.
(c) Worker's rights.
(d) Anti-union legislation.

2. What famous Depression tune did Yip Harburg write?
(a) We're In the Money.
(b) Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(c) Sixteen Tons.
(d) Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries.

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

4. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?
(a) It ignores the racial reality of the events.
(b) It demeans her life experience.
(c) It ignores the political reality of the events.
(d) They refuse to speak frankly to her about it.

5. What advertising outlet did William Benton exploit, making him his fortune?
(a) Sponsoring shorts before films.
(b) Direct mail.
(c) Billboards.
(d) Radio advertising.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Martin DeVries hate Roosevelt?

2. How does Diana Morgan describe herself at the beginning of her interview?

3. Peggy Terry says in Hard Travelin' that what disappeared from her life during the Depression?

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

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

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