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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. Who does Myrna Loy suspect of being the force behind her inability to meet FDR?
(a) Louis B. Mayer.
(b) Martin Dies.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt.

2. What does Edward Burgess say he never saw in Chicago in the 1930's?
(a) Bread lines.
(b) Apple carts.
(c) Speakeasy raids.
(d) Union strikes.

3. In Three o'Clock in the Morning, Wilbur Kane's mother was bitter about the invasion of what?
(a) The Sudetanland
(b) Ethiopia.
(c) Poland.
(d) Manchuria.

4. Which famous American film critic is interviewed in Hard Travelin'?
(a) Pauline Kael.
(b) Gene Siskel.
(c) Vincent Canby.
(d) Roger Ebert.

5. Where did Max R. Naiman and his worker's rights clients end up sleeping after he got them acquitted?
(a) A boxcar.
(b) A YMCA.
(c) On the steps of the courthouse.
(d) A city park.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Chicago Worker's Alliance protect against?

2. How does E.D. Nixon's campaign to unionize the sleeping car porters end?

3. What memory makes Elsa Ponselle laugh during her interview in Public Servant-The City?

4. According to Samuel A. Heller, what did police often do with arraigned people awaiting trial in the 1930's?

5. What controversial action did the Rural Rehabilitation Division undertake in the 1930's?

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