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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. In Man and Boy, what does Clifford Burke credit with black men's survival in the Depression?
(a) Their faith.
(b) Their wives.
(c) Charity organizations.
(d) The government.

2. Who was the head of the red-baiting committee that investigated New Deal administrators in the 1930's?
(a) Martin Dies.
(b) Joseph McCarthy.
(c) C. Wright Patman.
(d) Stanley Fish.

3. How many people does Terkel Interview in this introduction?
(a) 2.
(b) 0.
(c) 5.
(d) 12.

4. How did strike organizers in Detroit finally stop scabs from coming?
(a) They nailed shut the factory doors.
(b) They paid scabs not to go to work.
(c) They shut down the highway.
(d) They burned a scab's house down.

5. In what war did the Bonus marchers fight?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Spanish American War.
(c) The Crimean War.
(d) World War I.

Short Answer Questions

1. What demagogic figure of the 1930's did Dawn McCullough despise?

2. What dubious art did Jerome Zerbe develop in the 1930's?

3. Where does the sit in of Three Strikes take place?

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

5. Peggy Terry says in Hard Travelin' that what disappeared from her life during the Depression?

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