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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the sketch programs Neil Schaffner performed in troupes across the country?
(a) Repertoire.
(b) Penny entertainments.
(c) Acts.
(d) Country-stories.

2. What was Dorothea Lange's profession?
(a) Newspaper columnist.
(b) Photographer.
(c) Economist.
(d) Nurse.

3. What does Alf Landon say he disliked about Roosevelt's New Deal?
(a) Its centralization of executive power.
(b) Almost nothing.
(c) The nationalization of industry.
(d) The Stalinist collectivism.

4. Why was Ward James fired from his job in the 1930's?
(a) Drinking on the job.
(b) Lack of money to pay him.
(c) Incompetence.
(d) Union activity.

5. At the end of his interview, Horace Cayton discusses why black Americans never joined what group en masse?
(a) The Unions.
(b) The Communists.
(c) The Republicans.
(d) The Wobblies.

6. Why did C. Wright Patman push for the impeachment of Hoover's Treasury Secretary?
(a) He promoted market speculation.
(b) He was not an American citizen.
(c) He stopped the World War I bonuses.
(d) He failed to address the stock market crash.

7. According to Max Shachtman, what international event ended credibility for Communism in the United States?
(a) The Hitler-Stalin Pact.
(b) Stalin's purges.
(c) Pearl Harbor.
(d) The Cultural Revolution.

8. What is Stanley Kell's community organization trying to prevent at the time he is interviewed?
(a) Construction of a country club nearby.
(b) New fire code regulations.
(c) Black families moving in.
(d) Unionization of the paper printers.

9. In Three o'Clock in the Morning, Wilbur Kane's mother was bitter about the invasion of what?
(a) The Sudetanland
(b) Poland.
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) Manchuria.

10. As he entered his later years, what term did Roosevelt use to describe himself among aides?
(a) The poor public servant.
(b) The indispensible man.
(c) King Frank.
(d) Ozymandias.

11. In whose administration was David Kennedy the Secretary of the Treasury?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Kennedy.

12. Dr. Francis Townsend's ideas eventually became the groundwork for what?
(a) The New Deal.
(b) The Civil Rights Movement.
(c) Social Security.
(d) Medicaid.

13. According to historian Christopher Lasch, what was never a serious possibility in the Depression?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Loss of personal freedom.
(c) Annexation by Canada.
(d) A right-wing reaction.

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

15. What safety practice do coal companies refuse to implement for fear of slowing production in the 1930's?
(a) Offering medical examinations.
(b) Spraying down shafts.
(c) Switching out workers every 8 hours.
(d) Ventilating mines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Billy Green say he was unaffected by the Depression?

2. What does Wilbur Kane still dislike about Roosevelt?

3. To whom did Myrna Loy send her infamous wire?

4. As described in The Farmer Is the Man, how did a mob respond to a judge who was foreclosing on homes in Iowa?

5. What does Wilbur Kane remember most vividly about Franklin Roosevelt?

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