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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What entertainment did Sally Rand invent?
(a) The penny arcade.
(b) The Charleston.
(c) The knock-knock joke.
(d) The fan dance.

2. What did Arthur Robinson do before entering the financial markets?
(a) He was a war correspondent.
(b) He was a tobacco picker.
(c) He was a school teacher.
(d) He was an actor.

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

4. What did the Wagner Act outlaw?
(a) Violent removal of striking workers.
(b) Union organizers on private property.
(c) Government money going to unions.
(d) Employer firings of unionizing workers.

5. How old was Ed Paulson when he took to the road?
(a) 14.
(b) 40.
(c) 33.
(d) 20.

6. What demagogic figure of the 1930's did Dawn McCullough despise?
(a) Father Coughlin.
(b) Bob La Follette.
(c) Franklin Roosevelt.
(d) Huey Long.

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

8. How did Frank Czerwonka's mother make money during the Depression?
(a) She refurbished sofas.
(b) She was a prostitute.
(c) She ran a speakeasy.
(d) She made pastries.

9. 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 barely talked about.
(b) They were commodities to be sold.
(c) They were boogeymen.
(d) They were folk heroes.

10. What was Bob La Follette's signature issue in the 1928 election?
(a) Anti-union legislation.
(b) Military isolation.
(c) Wall Street reform.
(d) Worker's rights.

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

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

13. Which of the following is not a periodical mentioned by Terkel in the Introduction?
(a) Life.
(b) Judge.
(c) Literary Digest.
(d) The New Republic.

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

15. What did many of Arthur Robinson's friends say was the only reason to have money?
(a) To give to the poor.
(b) To make more money.
(c) To have influence.
(d) To provide for one's family.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what war did the Bonus marchers fight?

2. According to Harburg, who suffered most when the financial system collapsed?

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

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

5. Which famous American film critic is interviewed in Hard Travelin'?

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