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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. To whom did Myrna Loy send her infamous wire?
(a) A Soviet defector.
(b) Churchill.
(c) Trotsky.
(d) A Czech dissident.

2. What does Jimmy Partland say is the importance of a job?
(a) To stimulate growth.
(b) To keep people out of trouble.
(c) To make one feel useful.
(d) To promote innovation.

3. What recollection does Diana Morgan have that draws tears from her?
(a) Having to stand on line for a job.
(b) Interviewing her former maid for relief.
(c) Losing her house.
(d) Her father's death.

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

5. Aaron Barkham informs the reader of what strange practice of certain clans within the Appalachian Ku Klux Klan?
(a) They had black members.
(b) They spoke Gaelic to each other.
(c) They had bake sales.
(d) They were entirely composed of women.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Ed Paulson when he took to the road?

2. Why was the Michigan governor Frank Murphy branded weak-willed regarding the sit-in strike?

3. Why would hobos put marks on people's houses with chalk?

4. How did Jim Sheridan travel to the Bonus March?

5. During the Depression, why did farmers systematically stop corn deliveries?

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