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

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

3. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?
(a) Writers.
(b) Auto workers.
(c) Corn growers.
(d) Jazz musicians.

4. In what scant costume did Sally Rand enter the Beaux Arts ball?
(a) Messalina.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Lady Godiva.
(d) Eve.

5. What young officer assisted MacArthur in dispersing the Bonus Marchers?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) John Kennedy.
(c) George Patton.
(d) Curtis LeMay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What food can Dorothe Bernstein not stand because of her days in an orphanage?

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

3. What metaphor does Arthur Robinson use to describe Wall Street in the 1920's?

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

5. What did Terkel seek out en route to his university?

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