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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. How did Phyllis Mortimer's brother feel about her working in the 1930's?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Embarrassed
(c) Unconcerned.
(d) Proud.

2. In whose administration was David Kennedy the Secretary of the Treasury?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Roosevelt.

3. Why did C. Wright Patman push for the impeachment of Hoover's Treasury Secretary?
(a) He was not an American citizen.
(b) He failed to address the stock market crash.
(c) He promoted market speculation.
(d) He stopped the World War I bonuses.

4. 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) White neighbors hocked their radios to him.
(d) He began hiring white workers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the collectivized camps outside of urban centers closed?

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

3. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?

4. What famous Depression tune did Yip Harburg write?

5. In her interview, what does Diana Morgan say never interested her?

(see the answer key)

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