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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. According to Emma Teiller, why did armed men enter a relief house in her neighborhood?
(a) To keep Japanese Americans out of it.
(b) To stop mobs threatening to burn it down.
(c) To ensure that blacks were being fairly served.
(d) To keep an eye out for union organizers.

2. What does Wilbur Kane remember most vividly about Franklin Roosevelt?
(a) His voice.
(b) His smile.
(c) His cufflinks.
(d) His tailcoats.

3. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?
(a) They refuse to speak frankly to her about it.
(b) It ignores the racial reality of the events.
(c) It demeans her life experience.
(d) It ignores the political reality of the events.

4. What public figure publicly raved about Jack Kirkland's play?
(a) Huey Long.
(b) Harold Ickes.
(c) Orson Welles.
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt.

5. What was Roosevelt trying to prevent with the Bank Holiday?
(a) The decimation of people's savings.
(b) The emigration of bank owners.
(c) A run on failing banks.
(d) Buyouts by large conglomerate banks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did a significant number of people flee public housing in 1949?

2. To whom did Myrna Loy send her infamous wire?

3. What did Terkel's parents do for a living before the Depression?

4. What demagogic figure of the 1930's did Dawn McCullough despise?

5. In Three o'Clock in the Morning, Wilbur Kane's mother was bitter about the invasion of what?

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