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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. How did strike organizers in Detroit finally stop scabs from coming?
(a) They paid scabs not to go to work.
(b) They shut down the highway.
(c) They nailed shut the factory doors.
(d) They burned a scab's house down.

2. Where does the sit in of Three Strikes take place?
(a) A Ford auto plant.
(b) A Rockefeller steel mill.
(c) A cigarette manufactuing plant.
(d) A locally owned cloth factory.

3. What marked Long's second-in-command Gerald Smith regarding his speeches?
(a) His lack of clarity.
(b) His anti-Semitism.
(c) His stutter.
(d) His vulgarity.

4. 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) There was no way of telling, things were so bad.
(c) Blacks were actually better off.
(d) Blacks and whites were about equal for the first time.

5. What was Bob La Follette's signature issue in the 1928 election?
(a) Worker's rights.
(b) Military isolation.
(c) Wall Street reform.
(d) Anti-union legislation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What recollection does Diana Morgan have that draws tears from her?

2. What did the Wagner Act outlaw?

3. What term best describes the nature of the changes that happened after the 1929 Crash, from Terkel's perspective?

4. Which of the following is not a periodical mentioned by Terkel in the Introduction?

5. At the beginning of The Fine and Lively Arts, Hiram Sherman speaks glowingly of drinking covert gin out of what?

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