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

2. What product did Benton manage after the Depression?
(a) Muzak.
(b) Corn Flakes.
(c) The Boston Globe.
(d) Volkswagen.

3. Why does Robin Langston think his family was unaffected by the Depression?
(a) Theirs was the most popular restaurant in town.
(b) They never had money to begin with.
(c) Black communities were not affected by the Depression.
(d) They never bought on credit.

4. Why did Win Stracke lose his work as a balladeer?
(a) His loss of a hand.
(b) The oversaturation of the profession in the 1930's.
(c) His left-leaning views.
(d) His drinking.

5. According to Marshall and Steve , the young intellectuals of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, what became ingrained in American society as a result of the Depression?
(a) Fear.
(b) Consumerism.
(c) Isolationism.
(d) Racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphor does Arthur Robinson use to describe Wall Street in the 1920's?

2. Where did some vets stay in Washington, DC during the Bonus March besides the Hoovervilles?

3. How did Jim Sheridan travel to the Bonus March?

4. What was Dorothea Lange's profession?

5. Why did Martin DeVries hate Roosevelt?

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