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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Hard Travelin'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What promise did Upton Sinclair make to his supporters during his run for governor of California?
(a) To end poverty in California.
(b) To create a work program.
(c) To secede from the US.
(d) To extract public money from industrialists.

2. What did Blackie Gold do in the CCC during the Depression?
(a) He maintained national forests.
(b) He wrote for a national labor journal.
(c) He assessed people on relief.
(d) He performed on the radio.

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

4. How many people does Terkel Interview in this introduction?
(a) 2.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) 0.

5. In a quote in the Introduction, how does the speaker describe the socioeconomic relationship between blacks and whites during the Depression?
(a) Blacks and whites were about equal for the first time.
(b) Blacks were always worse off.
(c) Blacks were actually better off.
(d) There was no way of telling, things were so bad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?

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

3. What book does Terkel quote in the introduction to explain his purpose in writing this history?

4. According to Terkel in the Introduction, what voice dominated the radio alongside Roosevelt's during the Depression?

5. What young officer assisted MacArthur in dispersing the Bonus Marchers?

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