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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. 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) There was no way of telling, things were so bad.
(d) Blacks were actually better off.

2. Why does Robin Langston think his family was unaffected by the Depression?
(a) They never had money to begin with.
(b) Black communities were not affected by the Depression.
(c) They never bought on credit.
(d) Theirs was the most popular restaurant in town.

3. What happened that made Robin Langston realize a crisis had begun in the country?
(a) His family stopped eating meat.
(b) His lights were turned off.
(c) His friend's father killed himself.
(d) He had to miss days of school.

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

5. How old was Ed Paulson when he took to the road?
(a) 40.
(b) 20.
(c) 14.
(d) 33.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Arthur Robinson do before entering the financial markets?

2. What demagogic figure of the 1930's did Dawn McCullough despise?

3. Where did Arthur Robinson keep thousands of dollars during the bank holiday?

4. What happened to one of Daisy Singer's favorite parks during the Depression?

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

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