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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2: Old Families, Member of the Chorus, High Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his interview, Doc Graham says that in the 1930's he was the country's best what?
(a) Door-to-door salesman.
(b) Bootlegger.
(c) Pitch man.
(d) Con man.

2. What job does Paulson eventually get after educating himself?
(a) Union organizer.
(b) Social worker.
(c) Railway worker.
(d) Primary school teacher.

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

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

5. How does Diana Morgan describe herself at the beginning of her interview?
(a) A habitual instigator.
(b) A southern belle.
(c) A lost cause.
(d) A woman of ill repute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term best describes the nature of the changes that happened after the 1929 Crash, from Terkel's perspective?

2. Why did Win Stracke lose his work as a balladeer?

3. What did Blackie Gold do in the CCC during the Depression?

4. According to Dr. David J. Rossman, what did psychoanalysis not acknowledge regarding patient distress in the 1930's?

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

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