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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: The Big Money, Man and Boy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Terkel, what increased among patrons of his parent's business after the Crash?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Panhandling.
(c) Emigrating to Mexico.
(d) Horse-betting.

2. Why would hobos put marks on people's houses with chalk?
(a) To tell other hobos if the people are good.
(b) To track the places they have been.
(c) To protest the banks' foreclosing on them.
(d) To say hello to loved ones.

3. What does Diane personally think about the suffering of the 1930's in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
(a) She has no opinion.
(b) She thinks it is exaggerated by those who experienced it.
(c) She thinks America reaped what it sowed in the 1920's.
(d) She thinks the suffering was focused disproportionately on minorities.

4. What did Arthur Robinson do before entering the financial markets?
(a) He was an actor.
(b) He was a school teacher.
(c) He was a war correspondent.
(d) He was a tobacco picker.

5. What metaphor does Arthur Robinson use to describe Wall Street in the 1920's?
(a) A rigged casino.
(b) A candy store.
(c) A Roman orgy.
(d) A private club.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people does Terkel Interview in this introduction?

2. In Hard Travelin', Peggy Terry says that America teaches people that poverty is what?

3. Why did Martin DeVries hate Roosevelt?

4. According to a quotation in the Introduction, what was the typical response to receiving a pink slip during the beginning of the Depression?

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

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