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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 memory makes Elsa Ponselle laugh during her interview in Public Servant-The City?
(a) The propaganda posters the government put out.
(b) The fear millionaires had during the Depression.
(c) Her family accusing her of being a Bolshevik.
(d) The debates that led to the creation of the teacher's union.

2. In Man and Boy, what does Clifford Burke credit with black men's survival in the Depression?
(a) Their wives.
(b) Charity organizations.
(c) Their faith.
(d) The government.

3. At the end of High Life, what does Judy blame for the Depression?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Sin.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Militarism.

4. What did Terkel's parents do for a living before the Depression?
(a) They ran a hotel.
(b) They worked for a newspaper.
(c) They worked a farm.
(d) They were actuaries.

5. According to Marshall and Steve , the young intellectuals of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, what became ingrained in American society as a result of the Depression?
(a) Isolationism.
(b) Fear.
(c) Racism.
(d) Consumerism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychiatric complaints did Dr. Nathan Ackerman's patients most often bring to him?

2. What entertainment did Sally Rand invent?

3. How does Diana Morgan describe herself at the beginning of her interview?

4. Who does Myrna Loy suspect of being the force behind her inability to meet FDR?

5. How did Jim Sheridan travel to the Bonus March?

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