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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 promise did Upton Sinclair make to his supporters during his run for governor of California?
(a) To create a work program.
(b) To secede from the US.
(c) To extract public money from industrialists.
(d) To end poverty in California.

2. When were the collectivized camps outside of urban centers closed?
(a) When America entered World War II.
(b) When the stock market crashed.
(c) The seventies.
(d) When Roosevelt died.

3. Why was the Michigan governor Frank Murphy branded weak-willed regarding the sit-in strike?
(a) He came out in support of the union.
(b) He disappeared from public after condemning the strike.
(c) He refused to comment on the strike.
(d) He did not send in troops.

4. What term best describes the nature of the changes that happened after the 1929 Crash, from Terkel's perspective?
(a) Devastating.
(b) Gradual.
(c) Nonexistent.
(d) Sudden.

5. What does Alf Landon say he disliked about Roosevelt's New Deal?
(a) The Stalinist collectivism.
(b) The nationalization of industry.
(c) Its centralization of executive power.
(d) Almost nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to historian Christopher Lasch, what was never a serious possibility in the Depression?

2. Why does Robin Langston think his family was unaffected by the Depression?

3. What does Edward Burgess discuss buying at the beginning of his interview in Merely Passing Through?

4. In Three o'Clock in the Morning, Wilbur Kane's mother was bitter about the invasion of what?

5. What accusation was made against Dr. Francis Townsend in his time?

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