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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. Where did Arthur Robinson keep thousands of dollars during the bank holiday?
(a) In a coffee can.
(b) In a Swiss account.
(c) In his sock.
(d) Under his mattress.

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

3. Who was the one black student in Terkel's college class?
(a) Medgar Evers.
(b) An ancestor of Frederick Douglass.
(c) Marcus Garvey's grandson.
(d) An African prince.

4. In her interview, what does Diana Morgan say never interested her?
(a) The accumulation of money.
(b) Communism.
(c) The suffering of others.
(d) Political struggle.

5. In Man and Boy, what does Clifford Burke credit with black men's survival in the Depression?
(a) The government.
(b) Their faith.
(c) Charity organizations.
(d) Their wives.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened that made Robin Langston realize a crisis had begun in the country?

3. Why did Win Stracke lose his work as a balladeer?

4. How did Phyllis Mortimer's brother feel about her working in the 1930's?

5. Where did Blackie Gold spend his childhood?

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