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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of protest does Horace Cayton discuss in Honor and Humiliation?
(a) Sit-ins.
(b) Be-ins.
(c) Walk-outs.
(d) Lie-ins.

2. What did Blackie Gold do in the CCC during the Depression?
(a) He performed on the radio.
(b) He maintained national forests.
(c) He assessed people on relief.
(d) He wrote for a national labor journal.

3. What did the Chicago Worker's Alliance protect against?
(a) Employer intimidation.
(b) Evictions.
(c) Relief fraud.
(d) Health violations.

4. On what does Dr. David J. Rossman think modern Americans rely too heavily?
(a) Medication.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Alchohol and drugs.
(d) The government.

5. Aaron Barkham informs the reader of what strange practice of certain clans within the Appalachian Ku Klux Klan?
(a) They had black members.
(b) They spoke Gaelic to each other.
(c) They had bake sales.
(d) They were entirely composed of women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bob La Follette before he ran for President?

2. To whom did Myrna Loy send her infamous wire?

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

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

5. In Man and Boy, what does Clifford Burke credit with black men's survival in the Depression?

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