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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 Scoop Lankford, when did conditions finally improve in the prison?
(a) When the rioting started.
(b) When Truman took office.
(c) When the WPA started.
(d) When the war started.

2. What happened to Orrin Kelly after the incident with the Iowa judge?
(a) He was arrested.
(b) He interviewed the leaders of the mob.
(c) He had to flee town.
(d) He became judge of the county.

3. What product did Benton manage after the Depression?
(a) Muzak.
(b) Corn Flakes.
(c) The Boston Globe.
(d) Volkswagen.

4. Why did Win Stracke lose his work as a balladeer?
(a) His drinking.
(b) His loss of a hand.
(c) The oversaturation of the profession in the 1930's.
(d) His left-leaning views.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cesar Chavez best known as?

2. According to Emma Teiller, why did armed men enter a relief house in her neighborhood?

3. To whom did Myrna Loy send her infamous wire?

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

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

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