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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. In a quote in the Introduction, how does the speaker describe the socioeconomic relationship between blacks and whites during the Depression?
(a) Blacks were always worse off.
(b) Blacks were actually better off.
(c) There was no way of telling, things were so bad.
(d) Blacks and whites were about equal for the first time.

2. What does Edward Burgess discuss buying at the beginning of his interview in Merely Passing Through?
(a) A yacht.
(b) A Studebaker.
(c) A rack of lamb.
(d) A pair of Florsheim shoes.

3. Who does Myrna Loy suspect of being the force behind her inability to meet FDR?
(a) Louis B. Mayer.
(b) Martin Dies.
(c) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(d) Harry Truman.

4. What was the Actors Union's response to The Cradle Will Rock?
(a) It barred actors from performing it onstage.
(b) It stipulated only five of its members could perform in it.
(c) It refused to intervene.
(d) It insisted the production go on as scheduled.

5. What book does Terkel quote in the introduction to explain his purpose in writing this history?
(a) Democracy in America.
(b) Les Miserables.
(c) Grapes of Wrath.
(d) The Great Gatsby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Dorothea Lange's profession?

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

3. What did an industrialist ask Gordon Baxter to destroy for him?

4. What happened that made Robin Langston realize a crisis had begun in the country?

5. Why did Huey Long not run for president in 1936?

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