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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: Scarlet Banners and Novenas, The Doctor, Huey and Mr. Smith, The Circuit Rider, The Gentleman from Kansas, A View of the Woods, Campus Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What entertainment did Sally Rand invent?
(a) The Charleston.
(b) The penny arcade.
(c) The knock-knock joke.
(d) The fan dance.

2. In Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where do Lily, Rob and Buck hear about the Depression?
(a) Their parents.
(b) Their school.
(c) Their grandparents.
(d) Television.

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

4. At the end of High Life, what does Judy blame for the Depression?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Militarism.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Sin.

5. What does Alf Landon say he disliked about Roosevelt's New Deal?
(a) The Stalinist collectivism.
(b) Almost nothing.
(c) Its centralization of executive power.
(d) The nationalization of industry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Francis Townsend's ideas eventually became the groundwork for what?

2. What unorthodox job did Phyllis Mortimer take when her family fell short of money in the 1930's?

3. Where did Harburg work before the Depression?

4. What did an industrialist ask Gordon Baxter to destroy for him?

5. Which famous American film critic is interviewed in Hard Travelin'?

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