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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 make one feel useful.
(c) To promote innovation.
(d) To stimulate growth.

2. Who were the "service department" of Detroit?
(a) Hired thugs working for management.
(b) The strike organizers.
(c) The government officers who were on the company payroll.
(d) The series of vendors who provided food for strikers.

3. What metaphor does Arthur Robinson use to describe Wall Street in the 1920's?
(a) A candy store.
(b) A rigged casino.
(c) A private club.
(d) A Roman orgy.

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

5. 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) Isolationism.
(b) Fear.
(c) Consumerism.
(d) Racism.

6. According to Dr. David J. Rossman, what did psychoanalysis not acknowledge regarding patient distress in the 1930's?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Anxiety attacks.
(c) Parental fixations.
(d) External stimuli.

7. How did Dr. Lewis Andreas help strikers in Chicago in 1937?
(a) He lobbied senators and congressmen on their behalf.
(b) He contributed thousands to their employment fund.
(c) He provided free healthcare to them.
(d) He wrote op-eds for them.

8. 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 military advisor to Hoover.
(d) A Republican governor of Wisconsin.

9. What recollection does Diana Morgan have that draws tears from her?
(a) Losing her house.
(b) Having to stand on line for a job.
(c) Her father's death.
(d) Interviewing her former maid for relief.

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

11. Why was the Michigan governor Frank Murphy branded weak-willed regarding the sit-in strike?
(a) He refused to comment on the strike.
(b) He did not send in troops.
(c) He came out in support of the union.
(d) He disappeared from public after condemning the strike.

12. What did an industrialist ask Gordon Baxter to destroy for him?
(a) Dossiers on his workers.
(b) Anti-union pamphlets.
(c) A union card.
(d) A cudgel used to kill a union leader.

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

14. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?
(a) It ignores the political reality of the events.
(b) It ignores the racial reality of the events.
(c) They refuse to speak frankly to her about it.
(d) It demeans her life experience.

15. What promise did Upton Sinclair make to his supporters during his run for governor of California?
(a) To secede from the US.
(b) To extract public money from industrialists.
(c) To create a work program.
(d) To end poverty in California.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did some vets stay in Washington, DC during the Bonus March besides the Hoovervilles?

2. What did many of Arthur Robinson's friends say was the only reason to have money?

3. Why did Martin DeVries hate Roosevelt?

4. Where did Blackie Gold spend his childhood?

5. What is Cesar Chavez best known as?

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