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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. What did the prison where Scoop Lankford was held in the 1930's try to feed the inmates at the worst times?
(a) Rotten sardines.
(b) Shark.
(c) Gristle.
(d) Gruel.

2. According to Doc Graham, what was the only good thing Roosevelt did?
(a) Get Hoover out of office.
(b) Die.
(c) Pass the WPO.
(d) Repeal Prohibition.

3. According to Marshall and Steve , the young intellectuals of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, what became ingrained in American society as a result of the Depression?
(a) Fear.
(b) Racism.
(c) Isolationism.
(d) Consumerism.

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

5. What did Hiram Sherman do in The Cradle Will Rock?
(a) He was a stagehand.
(b) He was an actor.
(c) He wrote it.
(d) He directed it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did C. Wright Patman push for the impeachment of Hoover's Treasury Secretary?

2. According to Buddy Blankenship in Sixteen Ton, what did coal companies often pay instead of money?

3. In Hard Travelin', Peggy Terry says that America teaches people that poverty is what?

4. In a quote in the Introduction, how does the speaker describe the socioeconomic relationship between blacks and whites during the Depression?

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

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