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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. Which of the following is not an implement that interviewers in The March say was used to disperse marchers?
(a) Bayonets.
(b) Guns.
(c) Tear gas.
(d) Water cannon.

2. According to Terkel in the Introduction, what voice dominated the radio alongside Roosevelt's during the Depression?
(a) Father Coughlin.
(b) Doctor Townsend.
(c) Huey Long.
(d) Alf Landon.

3. How did Frank Czerwonka's mother make money during the Depression?
(a) She refurbished sofas.
(b) She made pastries.
(c) She ran a speakeasy.
(d) She was a prostitute.

4. What marked Long's second-in-command Gerald Smith regarding his speeches?
(a) His stutter.
(b) His anti-Semitism.
(c) His lack of clarity.
(d) His vulgarity.

5. What unorthodox job did Phyllis Mortimer take when her family fell short of money in the 1930's?
(a) Door girl for a speakeasy.
(b) Card girl at boxing matches.
(c) Chorus diver in movies.
(d) Switchboard operator for an advertising firm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Huey Long not run for president in 1936?

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

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

4. What was the Actors Union's response to The Cradle Will Rock?

5. In 1930's Appalachia, what does the KKK assist in setting up?

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