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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Bob La Follette before he ran for President?
(a) The owner of a chain of delis.
(b) The Secretary of Education.
(c) A Republican governor of Wisconsin.
(d) A military advisor to Hoover.

2. What writer did Ray Wax take as his model during the Depression?
(a) John Steinbeck.
(b) Horatio Alger.
(c) Upton Sinclair.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

3. What moment excited Wilbur Kane to the point of mocking his German neighbors?
(a) Joe Louis's victory over Schmeling.
(b) The death of Adolf Hitler.
(c) America entering the War.
(d) Jesse Owens' win in the Berlin Olympics.

4. According to Emma Teiller, why did armed men enter a relief house in her neighborhood?
(a) To keep an eye out for union organizers.
(b) To keep Japanese Americans out of it.
(c) To stop mobs threatening to burn it down.
(d) To ensure that blacks were being fairly served.

5. What did Harry Hartman do in the 1930's when he felt bad for the indebted people he was serving?
(a) He would give them the address of a Worker's Alliance.
(b) He would buy them a taxi to a shelter.
(c) He would leave some belongings behind.
(d) He would say they were not home.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his interview, Doc Graham says that in the 1930's he was the country's best what?

2. What dubious art did Jerome Zerbe develop in the 1930's?

3. How old was Ed Paulson when he took to the road?

4. Who were the "service department" of Detroit?

5. What did an industrialist ask Gordon Baxter to destroy for him?

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