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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. According to Terkel, what increased among patrons of his parent's business after the Crash?
(a) Emigrating to Mexico.
(b) Panhandling.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Horse-betting.

2. What did Bob Leary's father do during much of the Depression to avoid going crazy?
(a) Have an affair.
(b) Fish at a nearby lake.
(c) Redo the upholstery of a car.
(d) Paint a house.

3. Where did Blackie Gold spend his childhood?
(a) A boarding school.
(b) Canada.
(c) A military post.
(d) An orphanage.

4. Why would hobos put marks on people's houses with chalk?
(a) To track the places they have been.
(b) To protest the banks' foreclosing on them.
(c) To tell other hobos if the people are good.
(d) To say hello to loved ones.

5. What metaphor does Arthur Robinson use to describe Wall Street in the 1920's?
(a) A Roman orgy.
(b) A rigged casino.
(c) A private club.
(d) A candy store.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edward Burgess discuss buying at the beginning of his interview in Merely Passing Through?

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

3. According to Buddy Blankenship in Sixteen Ton, what was the state of coal miners before the Depression?

4. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?

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

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