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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. In the 1930's W. Clement Stone made his money selling what?
(a) Life insurance.
(b) Cars.
(c) Wholesale grain feed.
(d) Bibles.

2. According to Gardiner Means, what ended with the Depression?
(a) Federal intervention.
(b) Personal freedom.
(c) The Gold Standard.
(d) Laissez-faire.

3. According to Emma Teiller, why did armed men enter a relief house in her neighborhood?
(a) To ensure that blacks were being fairly served.
(b) To keep an eye out for union organizers.
(c) To stop mobs threatening to burn it down.
(d) To keep Japanese Americans out of it.

4. What did the Chicago Worker's Alliance protect against?
(a) Relief fraud.
(b) Evictions.
(c) Health violations.
(d) Employer intimidation.

5. What accusation was made against Dr. Francis Townsend in his time?
(a) Womanizing behavior.
(b) Aspiring to the Presidency.
(c) Stealing from the elderly.
(d) Being a Communist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilbur Kane still dislike about Roosevelt?

2. What controversial action did the Rural Rehabilitation Division undertake in the 1930's?

3. Why did a significant number of people flee public housing in 1949?

4. According to Max Shachtman, what international event ended credibility for Communism in the United States?

5. Corn farmers often switched to what agricultural product in the midst of the Depression?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did The Cradle Will Rock become a lightning rod of controversy?

2. What did Hiram Sherman do after The Cradle Will Rock?

3. Who was Martin Dies?

4. Why does Myrna Loy think she never got to meet Roosevelt in person?

5. What strange and dangerous episode regarding congressional testimony does C. Wright Patman make?

6. What was Edward Burgess's experience of the 1930's?

7. How does Max Shachtman explain the decline of Communism's popularity in America?

8. What safety concerns pervaded mines in the 1930's?

9. What strange dichotomy exists in Stanley Kell's interview in Honor and Humiliation?

10. How were the prisons affected by the Depression?

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