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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. Where did Harburg work before the Depression?
(a) Military services.
(b) Financial sector.
(c) Newpapers.
(d) University administration.

2. What did Slim Collier's father do before the Depression?
(a) Landscaping.
(b) Die work.
(c) Smelting.
(d) Copywriting.

3. What is Cesar Chavez best known as?
(a) A poet.
(b) An entertainer.
(c) A labor organizer.
(d) A priest.

4. What did Bob Leary's father do during much of the Depression to avoid going crazy?
(a) Paint a house.
(b) Have an affair.
(c) Fish at a nearby lake.
(d) Redo the upholstery of a car.

5. What dubious art did Jerome Zerbe develop in the 1930's?
(a) Hardcore pornography.
(b) Celebrity photography.
(c) Bootlegging.
(d) Muzak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?

2. How did Phyllis Mortimer's brother feel about her working in the 1930's?

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

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

5. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?

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