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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5: Public Servant - The City, Evictions, Arrests and Other Running Sores.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Blackie Gold spend his childhood?
(a) An orphanage.
(b) A military post.
(c) Canada.
(d) A boarding school.

3. What did Jane Yoder consider a luxury during the Depression?
(a) A bed.
(b) A hot meal.
(c) A new sweater.
(d) A trip to the movies.

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

5. According to Max Shachtman, what international event ended credibility for Communism in the United States?
(a) Stalin's purges.
(b) The Hitler-Stalin Pact.
(c) The Cultural Revolution.
(d) Pearl Harbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to historian Christopher Lasch, what was never a serious possibility in the Depression?

2. What product did Benton manage after the Depression?

3. Which movement sought to replace the American Federation of Labor in the 1930's?

4. What psychiatric complaints did Dr. Nathan Ackerman's patients most often bring to him?

5. What was Paul Draper's occupation during the 1930's?

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