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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. How did Phyllis Mortimer's brother feel about her working in the 1930's?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Unconcerned.
(c) Proud.
(d) Embarrassed

2. Who were the "service department" of Detroit?
(a) The government officers who were on the company payroll.
(b) The series of vendors who provided food for strikers.
(c) The strike organizers.
(d) Hired thugs working for management.

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

4. In Hard Travelin', Peggy Terry says that America teaches people that poverty is what?
(a) A mark of holiness.
(b) A sin.
(c) A birthright.
(d) A personal failing.

5. Which of the following is not an implement that interviewers in The March say was used to disperse marchers?
(a) Water cannon.
(b) Bayonets.
(c) Guns.
(d) Tear gas.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Jane Yoder consider a luxury during the Depression?

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

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

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