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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. What was Bob La Follette's signature issue in the 1928 election?
(a) Wall Street reform.
(b) Worker's rights.
(c) Anti-union legislation.
(d) Military isolation.

2. What inversion of racial relationships happened regarding Robin Langston's father during the Depression?
(a) He was invited to move into a whites-only neighborhood.
(b) He was allowed to join the pipe-fitters' union.
(c) He began hiring white workers.
(d) White neighbors hocked their radios to him.

3. According to Doc Graham, what was the only good thing Roosevelt did?
(a) Die.
(b) Get Hoover out of office.
(c) Repeal Prohibition.
(d) Pass the WPO.

4. In his interview, Doc Graham says that in the 1930's he was the country's best what?
(a) Door-to-door salesman.
(b) Con man.
(c) Bootlegger.
(d) Pitch man.

5. What strange job does Terkel get right after college?
(a) Advertising copy editor.
(b) Circus booker.
(c) Radio performer.
(d) Dustbin salesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what does Dr. David J. Rossman think modern Americans rely too heavily?

2. What term best describes the nature of the changes that happened after the 1929 Crash, from Terkel's perspective?

3. What did Jane Yoder consider a luxury during the Depression?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the purpose of the Bonus March?

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

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

4. How did the jazz community take care of its own in the Depression?

5. How did a small community develop around the Ford plant strike in Detroit?

6. How did William Benton make his fortune?

7. How was Dr. Lewis Andreas converted to union support in 1937?

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

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

10. How did hobos get by during the Depression?

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