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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Terkel in the Introduction, what voice dominated the radio alongside Roosevelt's during the Depression?
(a) Alf Landon.
(b) Father Coughlin.
(c) Doctor Townsend.
(d) Huey Long.

2. Where does Reed's father want Reed to go for his post-graduate vacation?
(a) Japan.
(b) The Caribbean.
(c) Europe.
(d) Mexico.

3. What public figure publicly raved about Jack Kirkland's play?
(a) Harold Ickes.
(b) Orson Welles.
(c) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(d) Huey Long.

4. What psychiatric complaints did Dr. Nathan Ackerman's patients most often bring to him?
(a) Anxiety and chronic sadness.
(b) Agoraphobia and narcolepsy.
(c) Malaise and suicidal thoughts.
(d) Tremors and nausea.

5. How does E.D. Nixon's campaign to unionize the sleeping car porters end?
(a) They are all fired.
(b) The porters are given a vote and they vote against the union.
(c) The union is instituted.
(d) Only NIxon's train line is unionized.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Dr. Lewis Andreas help strikers in Chicago in 1937?

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

3. How was public housing viewed differently by the public in the 1930's than it is today?

4. Which of the following figures from 1930's cultural-political life is not personally interviewed in Hard Times?

5. Corn farmers often switched to what agricultural product in the midst of the Depression?

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