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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: Concerning the New Deal, An Unreconstructed Populist, Peroration.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Arthur Robinson keep thousands of dollars during the bank holiday?
(a) In a coffee can.
(b) In his sock.
(c) Under his mattress.
(d) In a Swiss account.

2. What does Jimmy Partland say is the importance of a job?
(a) To make one feel useful.
(b) To stimulate growth.
(c) To promote innovation.
(d) To keep people out of trouble.

3. What was Roosevelt trying to prevent with the Bank Holiday?
(a) A run on failing banks.
(b) The emigration of bank owners.
(c) The decimation of people's savings.
(d) Buyouts by large conglomerate banks.

4. When were the collectivized camps outside of urban centers closed?
(a) When the stock market crashed.
(b) The seventies.
(c) When Roosevelt died.
(d) When America entered World War II.

5. What did Bob Leary's father do during much of the Depression to avoid going crazy?
(a) Fish at a nearby lake.
(b) Have an affair.
(c) Paint a house.
(d) Redo the upholstery of a car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Win Stracke lose his work as a balladeer?

2. What recollection does Diana Morgan have that draws tears from her?

3. What did Slim Collier's father do before the Depression?

4. Why does Robin Langston think his family was unaffected by the Depression?

5. Who was the head of the red-baiting committee that investigated New Deal administrators in the 1930's?

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