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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. Why did a significant number of people flee public housing in 1949?
(a) The war increased income across the board.
(b) The governement decreased funding to it.
(c) The units were integrated.
(d) The units were found to be unsafely constructed.

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

3. What did the Wagner Act outlaw?
(a) Union organizers on private property.
(b) Employer firings of unionizing workers.
(c) Violent removal of striking workers.
(d) Government money going to unions.

4. What does Jimmy Partland say is the importance of a job?
(a) To make one feel useful.
(b) To stimulate growth.
(c) To keep people out of trouble.
(d) To promote innovation.

5. How did Jim Sheridan travel to the Bonus March?
(a) He rode a boxcar.
(b) He hitched rides.
(c) He walked the whole way.
(d) He joined a caravan of jalopies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the Michigan governor Frank Murphy branded weak-willed regarding the sit-in strike?

2. What was different about a teachers' strike in the 1930's?

3. What does Wilbur Kane still dislike about Roosevelt?

4. What does Wilbur Kane remember most vividly about Franklin Roosevelt?

5. In what scant costume did Sally Rand enter the Beaux Arts ball?

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