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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. In God Bless' the Child, Slim Collier discusses what effect created by job loss in America?
(a) Economic.
(b) Political.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Moral.

2. What promise did Upton Sinclair make to his supporters during his run for governor of California?
(a) To create a work program.
(b) To secede from the US.
(c) To end poverty in California.
(d) To extract public money from industrialists.

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

4. Why would hobos put marks on people's houses with chalk?
(a) To track the places they have been.
(b) To say hello to loved ones.
(c) To protest the banks' foreclosing on them.
(d) To tell other hobos if the people are good.

5. What did Slim Collier's father do before the Depression?
(a) Landscaping.
(b) Die work.
(c) Smelting.
(d) Copywriting.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What happened to one of Daisy Singer's favorite parks during the Depression?

4. What product did Benton manage after the Depression?

5. Why does Robin Langston think his family was unaffected by the Depression?

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