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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Peggy Terry says in Hard Travelin' that what disappeared from her life during the Depression?
(a) Her family.
(b) Racism.
(c) Her sense of patriotism.
(d) Hope.

2. What did the Wagner Act outlaw?
(a) Employer firings of unionizing workers.
(b) Government money going to unions.
(c) Violent removal of striking workers.
(d) Union organizers on private property.

3. How did strike organizers in Detroit finally stop scabs from coming?
(a) They nailed shut the factory doors.
(b) They shut down the highway.
(c) They paid scabs not to go to work.
(d) They burned a scab's house down.

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

5. What did an industrialist ask Gordon Baxter to destroy for him?
(a) Dossiers on his workers.
(b) A union card.
(c) A cudgel used to kill a union leader.
(d) Anti-union pamphlets.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What strange job does Terkel get right after college?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe E.D. Nixon's struggle to unionize sleeping car porters.

2. What does Slim Collier's discussion of her father say about the effect unemployment has on men?

3. What resources for the transient did Ed Paulson discover during the Depression?

4. Who is Bob La Follette?

5. Why was psychoanalysis largely ineffective in the Depression?

6. How did Blackie Gold end up maintaining national forests in the 1930's?

7. Why is Jerome Zerbe's interview oddly disturbing?

8. How do interviewees who were young in the 1930's realize something bad happened in the country?

9. How was Robin Langston's family affected by the Depression?

10. How did blues and alcohol play a defining role in Terkel's college years?

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