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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. Dr. Francis Townsend's ideas eventually became the groundwork for what?
(a) The New Deal.
(b) Social Security.
(c) Medicaid.
(d) The Civil Rights Movement.

2. What accusation was made against Dr. Francis Townsend in his time?
(a) Being a Communist.
(b) Aspiring to the Presidency.
(c) Womanizing behavior.
(d) Stealing from the elderly.

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

4. What industry did Jose Yglesia attempt to unionize?
(a) Cigar rollers.
(b) Steelworkers.
(c) Newspaper printers.
(d) Pickers.

5. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?
(a) Corn growers.
(b) Jazz musicians.
(c) Auto workers.
(d) Writers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alf Landon say he disliked about Roosevelt's New Deal?

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

3. What happened to one of Daisy Singer's favorite parks during the Depression?

4. Aaron Barkham informs the reader of what strange practice of certain clans within the Appalachian Ku Klux Klan?

5. At the end of High Life, what does Judy blame for the Depression?

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