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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: Scarlet Banners and Novenas, The Doctor, Huey and Mr. Smith, The Circuit Rider, The Gentleman from Kansas, A View of the Woods, Campus Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What metaphor does Arthur Robinson use to describe Wall Street in the 1920's?
(a) A candy store.
(b) A rigged casino.
(c) A private club.
(d) A Roman orgy.

2. According to Doc Graham, what was the only good thing Roosevelt did?
(a) Repeal Prohibition.
(b) Get Hoover out of office.
(c) Die.
(d) Pass the WPO.

3. At the end of High Life, what does Judy blame for the Depression?
(a) Militarism.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Sin.

4. According to Dr. David J. Rossman, what did psychoanalysis not acknowledge regarding patient distress in the 1930's?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Anxiety attacks.
(c) Parental fixations.
(d) External stimuli.

5. With what assertion does David Kennedy say he disagrees regarding Roosevelt?
(a) He was a Communist.
(b) His programs stemmed suffering.
(c) He bought his elections.
(d) He saved America.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Fred Thompson, what did Wobblies constantly have to prove they were not?

2. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?

3. In 1930's Appalachia, what does the KKK assist in setting up?

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

5. How did strike organizers in Detroit finally stop scabs from coming?

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