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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jimmy Partland say is the importance of a job?
(a) To keep people out of trouble.
(b) To stimulate growth.
(c) To promote innovation.
(d) To make one feel useful.

2. According to Marshall and Steve , the young intellectuals of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, what became ingrained in American society as a result of the Depression?
(a) Racism.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Consumerism.
(d) Fear.

3. What famous Depression tune did Yip Harburg write?
(a) Sixteen Tons.
(b) Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(c) Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries.
(d) We're In the Money.

4. What book does Terkel quote in the introduction to explain his purpose in writing this history?
(a) Democracy in America.
(b) Les Miserables.
(c) The Great Gatsby.
(d) Grapes of Wrath.

5. According to Terkel, what increased among patrons of his parent's business after the Crash?
(a) Horse-betting.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Emigrating to Mexico.
(d) Panhandling.

6. Why did Martin DeVries hate Roosevelt?
(a) Roosevelt got America into World War II.
(b) Roosevelt attacked the free market system.
(c) Roosevelt tried to pack the court.
(d) Roosevelt came from money.

7. How did Jim Sheridan travel to the Bonus March?
(a) He rode a boxcar.
(b) He walked the whole way.
(c) He hitched rides.
(d) He joined a caravan of jalopies.

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

9. What advertising outlet did William Benton exploit, making him his fortune?
(a) Sponsoring shorts before films.
(b) Billboards.
(c) Direct mail.
(d) Radio advertising.

10. What happened that made Robin Langston realize a crisis had begun in the country?
(a) His lights were turned off.
(b) His family stopped eating meat.
(c) His friend's father killed himself.
(d) He had to miss days of school.

11. What did Terkel seek out en route to his university?
(a) The blues.
(b) Huey Long's home district.
(c) His high school sweetheart.
(d) A real American Hooverville.

12. How many people does Terkel Interview in this introduction?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 12.
(d) 0.

13. Why did Win Stracke lose his work as a balladeer?
(a) His drinking.
(b) His loss of a hand.
(c) His left-leaning views.
(d) The oversaturation of the profession in the 1930's.

14. According to Doc Graham, what was the public's attitude toward figures like Machine Gun Kelly and John Dillinger in the 1930's?
(a) They were commodities to be sold.
(b) They were boogeymen.
(c) They were folk heroes.
(d) They were barely talked about.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to a quotation in the Introduction, what was the typical response to receiving a pink slip during the beginning of the Depression?

2. At the end of High Life, what does Judy blame for the Depression?

3. What industry did Jose Yglesia attempt to unionize?

4. Who was the one black student in Terkel's college class?

5. What term best describes the nature of the changes that happened after the 1929 Crash, from Terkel's perspective?

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