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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 psychiatric complaints did Dr. Nathan Ackerman's patients most often bring to him?
(a) Tremors and nausea.
(b) Anxiety and chronic sadness.
(c) Agoraphobia and narcolepsy.
(d) Malaise and suicidal thoughts.

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

3. According to Gardiner Means, what ended with the Depression?
(a) Personal freedom.
(b) The Gold Standard.
(c) Laissez-faire.
(d) Federal intervention.

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

5. Why does Robin Langston think his family was unaffected by the Depression?
(a) Theirs was the most popular restaurant in town.
(b) Black communities were not affected by the Depression.
(c) They never bought on credit.
(d) They never had money to begin with.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not a periodical mentioned by Terkel in the Introduction?

3. What is Cesar Chavez best known as?

4. What job does Paulson eventually get after educating himself?

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

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