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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: The Big Money, Man and Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Paulson eventually get after educating himself?
(a) Primary school teacher.
(b) Union organizer.
(c) Railway worker.
(d) Social worker.

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

3. What is Cesar Chavez best known as?
(a) A labor organizer.
(b) A priest.
(c) An entertainer.
(d) A poet.

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

5. 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 political reality of the events.
(b) It demeans her life experience.
(c) It ignores the racial reality of the events.
(d) They refuse to speak frankly to her about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?

2. Where did some vets stay in Washington, DC during the Bonus March besides the Hoovervilles?

3. According to Harburg, who suffered most when the financial system collapsed?

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

5. How did Frank Czerwonka's mother make money during the Depression?

(see the answer key)

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