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

2. In Man and Boy, what does Clifford Burke credit with black men's survival in the Depression?
(a) Their wives.
(b) The government.
(c) Their faith.
(d) Charity organizations.

3. What controversial action did the Rural Rehabilitation Division undertake in the 1930's?
(a) It slaughtered thousands of cows.
(b) It nationalized the dairy industry.
(c) It combined farms under a federal banner.
(d) It tried to buy out General Mills.

4. What term best describes the nature of the changes that happened after the 1929 Crash, from Terkel's perspective?
(a) Sudden.
(b) Devastating.
(c) Gradual.
(d) Nonexistent.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did an industrialist ask Gordon Baxter to destroy for him?

3. What does Alf Landon say he disliked about Roosevelt's New Deal?

4. With what assertion does David Kennedy say he disagrees regarding Roosevelt?

5. According to Buddy Blankenship in Sixteen Ton, what was the state of coal miners before the Depression?

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