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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: God Bless' the Child.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What promise did Upton Sinclair make to his supporters during his run for governor of California?
(a) To end poverty in California.
(b) To extract public money from industrialists.
(c) To secede from the US.
(d) To create a work program.

3. What inversion of racial relationships happened regarding Robin Langston's father during the Depression?
(a) He was allowed to join the pipe-fitters' union.
(b) He began hiring white workers.
(c) He was invited to move into a whites-only neighborhood.
(d) White neighbors hocked their radios to him.

4. What book does Terkel quote in the introduction to explain his purpose in writing this history?
(a) The Great Gatsby.
(b) Les Miserables.
(c) Democracy in America.
(d) Grapes of Wrath.

5. What did Terkel's parents do for a living before the Depression?
(a) They were actuaries.
(b) They worked a farm.
(c) They ran a hotel.
(d) They worked for a newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Harburg work before the Depression?

2. What term best describes the nature of the changes that happened after the 1929 Crash, from Terkel's perspective?

3. In a quote in the Introduction, how does the speaker describe the socioeconomic relationship between blacks and whites during the Depression?

4. What did many of Arthur Robinson's friends say was the only reason to have money?

5. What product did Benton manage after the Depression?

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