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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 happened to one of Daisy Singer's favorite parks during the Depression?
(a) It became a shantytown.
(b) It became a site of weekly worker protests.
(c) It fell into disrepair.
(d) It was closed by the broke municipal government.

2. Who was the head of the red-baiting committee that investigated New Deal administrators in the 1930's?
(a) Martin Dies.
(b) C. Wright Patman.
(c) Joseph McCarthy.
(d) Stanley Fish.

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

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

5. In Hard Travelin', Peggy Terry says that America teaches people that poverty is what?
(a) A sin.
(b) A mark of holiness.
(c) A birthright.
(d) A personal failing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did some vets stay in Washington, DC during the Bonus March besides the Hoovervilles?

2. As he entered his later years, what term did Roosevelt use to describe himself among aides?

3. At the beginning of The Fine and Lively Arts, Hiram Sherman speaks glowingly of drinking covert gin out of what?

4. What entertainment did Sally Rand invent?

5. In Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where do Lily, Rob and Buck hear about the Depression?

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