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

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

3. What did many of Arthur Robinson's friends say was the only reason to have money?
(a) To give to the poor.
(b) To make more money.
(c) To have influence.
(d) To provide for one's family.

4. What inversion of racial relationships happened regarding Robin Langston's father during the Depression?
(a) He was invited to move into a whites-only neighborhood.
(b) He began hiring white workers.
(c) He was allowed to join the pipe-fitters' union.
(d) White neighbors hocked their radios to him.

5. In Hard Travelin', what does Peggy Terry think would happen if another Depression happened today?
(a) All Republicans would be voted out.
(b) We would rebound faster.
(c) There would be widespread violence.
(d) The Soviets would take over.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did strike organizers in Detroit finally stop scabs from coming?

2. Where did Blackie Gold spend his childhood?

3. Where did Harburg work before the Depression?

4. What did Slim Collier's father do before the Depression?

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

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