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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 Harburg work before the Depression?
(a) Newpapers.
(b) University administration.
(c) Financial sector.
(d) Military services.

2. What happened that made Robin Langston realize a crisis had begun in the country?
(a) His lights were turned off.
(b) His friend's father killed himself.
(c) He had to miss days of school.
(d) His family stopped eating meat.

3. In what scant costume did Sally Rand enter the Beaux Arts ball?
(a) Eve.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Messalina.
(d) Lady Godiva.

4. At the end of High Life, what does Judy blame for the Depression?
(a) Militarism.
(b) Sin.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Consumption.

5. What does Diane personally think about the suffering of the 1930's in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
(a) She has no opinion.
(b) She thinks the suffering was focused disproportionately on minorities.
(c) She thinks America reaped what it sowed in the 1920's.
(d) She thinks it is exaggerated by those who experienced it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?

2. In God Bless' the Child, Slim Collier discusses what effect created by job loss in America?

3. In whose administration was David Kennedy the Secretary of the Treasury?

4. What entertainment did Sally Rand invent?

5. According to Doc Graham, what was the only good thing Roosevelt did?

(see the answer key)

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