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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Bonnie Laboring Boy, Three Strikes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Racism.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Fear.
(d) Consumerism.

2. Which of the following is not a periodical mentioned by Terkel in the Introduction?
(a) Literary Digest.
(b) The New Republic.
(c) Judge.
(d) Life.

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

4. What did an industrialist ask Gordon Baxter to destroy for him?
(a) Anti-union pamphlets.
(b) Dossiers on his workers.
(c) A union card.
(d) A cudgel used to kill a union leader.

5. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?
(a) Auto workers.
(b) Jazz musicians.
(c) Writers.
(d) Corn growers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Frank Czerwonka's mother make money during the Depression?

2. According to Terkel, what increased among patrons of his parent's business after the Crash?

3. What did Bob Leary's father do during much of the Depression to avoid going crazy?

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

5. What did Jane Yoder consider a luxury during the Depression?

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