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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a periodical mentioned by Terkel in the Introduction?
(a) Life.
(b) Literary Digest.
(c) Judge.
(d) The New Republic.

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

3. What happened to one of Daisy Singer's favorite parks during the Depression?
(a) It became a site of weekly worker protests.
(b) It was closed by the broke municipal government.
(c) It fell into disrepair.
(d) It became a shantytown.

4. 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.

5. What entertainment did Sally Rand invent?
(a) The knock-knock joke.
(b) The Charleston.
(c) The penny arcade.
(d) The fan dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Fred Thompson, what did Wobblies constantly have to prove they were not?

2. According to Max Shachtman, what international event ended credibility for Communism in the United States?

3. Why did Huey Long not run for president in 1936?

4. What does Edward Burgess say he never saw in Chicago in the 1930's?

5. According to Dr. David J. Rossman, what did psychoanalysis not acknowledge regarding patient distress in the 1930's?

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