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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Diane personally think about the suffering of the 1930's in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
(a) She thinks the suffering was focused disproportionately on minorities.
(b) She thinks America reaped what it sowed in the 1920's.
(c) She has no opinion.
(d) She thinks it is exaggerated by those who experienced it.

2. What strange job does Terkel get right after college?
(a) Radio performer.
(b) Dustbin salesman.
(c) Advertising copy editor.
(d) Circus booker.

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

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

5. What demagogic figure of the 1930's did Dawn McCullough despise?
(a) Huey Long.
(b) Franklin Roosevelt.
(c) Father Coughlin.
(d) Bob La Follette.

Short Answer Questions

1. What legendary artist of the twentieth century directed The Cradle Will Rock?

2. What is Stanley Kell's community organization trying to prevent at the time he is interviewed?

3. Where does Reed's father want Reed to go for his post-graduate vacation?

4. According to Terkel, what increased among patrons of his parent's business after the Crash?

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

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