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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 two roles did Henry Wallace play in the Roosevelt administration?
(a) Secretary of Transportation and Chief of Staff.
(b) Secretary of Commerce and Attorney General.
(c) Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President.
(d) Secretary of the Interior and English Ambassador.

2. What accusation was made against Dr. Francis Townsend in his time?
(a) Being a Communist.
(b) Aspiring to the Presidency.
(c) Womanizing behavior.
(d) Stealing from the elderly.

3. What is Cesar Chavez best known as?
(a) A priest.
(b) A poet.
(c) A labor organizer.
(d) An entertainer.

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

5. Who does Billy Green credit with his success in business?
(a) His father.
(b) God.
(c) Himself.
(d) Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Doc Graham, what was the public's attitude toward figures like Machine Gun Kelly and John Dillinger in the 1930's?

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

3. As described in The Farmer Is the Man, how did a mob respond to a judge who was foreclosing on homes in Iowa?

4. How was public housing viewed differently by the public in the 1930's than it is today?

5. What did Bob Leary's father do during much of the Depression to avoid going crazy?

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