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

2. What does Diane personally think about the suffering of the 1930's in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
(a) She thinks it is exaggerated by those who experienced it.
(b) She thinks America reaped what it sowed in the 1920's.
(c) She thinks the suffering was focused disproportionately on minorities.
(d) She has no opinion.

3. What promise did Upton Sinclair make to his supporters during his run for governor of California?
(a) To create a work program.
(b) To secede from the US.
(c) To extract public money from industrialists.
(d) To end poverty in California.

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

5. Where does the sit in of Three Strikes take place?
(a) A Ford auto plant.
(b) A locally owned cloth factory.
(c) A cigarette manufactuing plant.
(d) A Rockefeller steel mill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What strange job does Terkel get right after college?

2. Why does Robin Langston think his family was unaffected by the Depression?

3. Where did Arthur Robinson keep thousands of dollars during the bank holiday?

4. In Hard Travelin', what does Peggy Terry think would happen if another Depression happened today?

5. Who were the "service department" of Detroit?

(see the answer key)

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