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

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

3. What Depression-era event terrified social worker Eileen Barth?
(a) A bomb threat at her office.
(b) A caseworker's murder.
(c) A union riot in Cleveland.
(d) An assassination attemp on FDR.

4. What public figure publicly raved about Jack Kirkland's play?
(a) Huey Long.
(b) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(c) Orson Welles.
(d) Harold Ickes.

5. Why did Ray Wax flee his parents home?
(a) He wanted to move to New York City.
(b) They were stealing his money.
(c) He eloped with a girl.
(d) They kicked him out for his Communist beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Actors Union's response to The Cradle Will Rock?

2. What event discussed earlier in the book does Harry Norgard think was destructive to society?

3. Why was Ward James fired from his job in the 1930's?

4. How were the actors able to perform the opening night of The Cradle Will Rock?

5. What two roles did Henry Wallace play in the Roosevelt administration?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Martin Dies?

3. How much power did coal companies have in the towns they inhabited?

4. How does Alf Landon recall his 1936 campaign against Roosevelt in the book?

5. What role did Elsa Ponselle play in the forming of the Teacher's Union?

6. How did Neil Schaffner's theatre troupe have to change their business model after the Crash 1929?

7. In the Depression-era Midwest, how did corn prices lead to corn being burned and pigs being slaughtered?

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

9. How does Christopher Lasch explain the possibility of a socialist revolt in the 1930's?

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

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