View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened to one of Daisy Singer's favorite parks during the Depression?
(a) It was closed by the broke municipal government.
(b) It became a shantytown.
(c) It fell into disrepair.
(d) It became a site of weekly worker protests.

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

4. What was Bob La Follette's signature issue in the 1928 election?
(a) Anti-union legislation.
(b) Military isolation.
(c) Wall Street reform.
(d) Worker's rights.

5. What term best describes the nature of the changes that happened after the 1929 Crash, from Terkel's perspective?
(a) Gradual.
(b) Sudden.
(c) Devastating.
(d) Nonexistent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Dr. Lewis Andreas help strikers in Chicago in 1937?

3. What product did Benton manage after the Depression?

4. Peggy Terry says in Hard Travelin' that what disappeared from her life during the Depression?

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)

This section contains 286 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample