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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 the Wagner Act outlaw?
(a) Government money going to unions.
(b) Violent removal of striking workers.
(c) Union organizers on private property.
(d) Employer firings of unionizing workers.

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

3. According to a quotation in the Introduction, what was the typical response to receiving a pink slip during the beginning of the Depression?
(a) Bemusement.
(b) Pride.
(c) Shame.
(d) Numbness.

4. What book does Terkel quote in the introduction to explain his purpose in writing this history?
(a) Grapes of Wrath.
(b) Democracy in America.
(c) Les Miserables.
(d) The Great Gatsby.

5. 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 America reaped what it sowed in the 1920's.
(c) She thinks the suffering was focused disproportionately on minorities.
(d) She thinks it is exaggerated by those who experienced it.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did Blackie Gold spend his childhood?

5. In a quote in the Introduction, how does the speaker describe the socioeconomic relationship between blacks and whites during the Depression?

(see the answer key)

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