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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5: The Fine and Lively Arts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which famous American film critic is interviewed in Hard Travelin'?
(a) Vincent Canby.
(b) Pauline Kael.
(c) Gene Siskel.
(d) Roger Ebert.

2. What was Bob La Follette before he ran for President?
(a) The Secretary of Education.
(b) A Republican governor of Wisconsin.
(c) A military advisor to Hoover.
(d) The owner of a chain of delis.

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

4. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?
(a) They refuse to speak frankly to her about it.
(b) It ignores the political reality of the events.
(c) It ignores the racial reality of the events.
(d) It demeans her life experience.

5. In Hard Travelin', Peggy Terry says that America teaches people that poverty is what?
(a) A mark of holiness.
(b) A personal failing.
(c) A birthright.
(d) A sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the collectivized camps outside of urban centers closed?

2. According to Gardiner Means, what ended with the Depression?

3. Where did Harburg work before the Depression?

4. What psychiatric complaints did Dr. Nathan Ackerman's patients most often bring to him?

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

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