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

2. What was Bob La Follette before he ran for President?
(a) The owner of a chain of delis.
(b) The Secretary of Education.
(c) A Republican governor of Wisconsin.
(d) A military advisor to Hoover.

3. Where did Blackie Gold spend his childhood?
(a) A boarding school.
(b) Canada.
(c) An orphanage.
(d) A military post.

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

5. In Man and Boy, what does Clifford Burke credit with black men's survival in the Depression?
(a) Their faith.
(b) Charity organizations.
(c) The government.
(d) Their wives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What industry did Jose Yglesia attempt to unionize?

2. What food can Dorothe Bernstein not stand because of her days in an orphanage?

3. Where does the sit in of Three Strikes take place?

4. Which of the following is not an implement that interviewers in The March say was used to disperse marchers?

5. What metaphor does Arthur Robinson use to describe Wall Street in the 1920's?

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