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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Cesar Chavez best known as?
(a) An entertainer.
(b) A poet.
(c) A labor organizer.
(d) A priest.
2. How does E.D. Nixon's campaign to unionize the sleeping car porters end?
(a) They are all fired.
(b) Only NIxon's train line is unionized.
(c) The union is instituted.
(d) The porters are given a vote and they vote against the union.
3. What industry did Jose Yglesia attempt to unionize?
(a) Cigar rollers.
(b) Pickers.
(c) Newspaper printers.
(d) Steelworkers.
4. How did Jim Sheridan travel to the Bonus March?
(a) He joined a caravan of jalopies.
(b) He rode a boxcar.
(c) He walked the whole way.
(d) He hitched rides.
5. What product did Benton manage after the Depression?
(a) The Boston Globe.
(b) Volkswagen.
(c) Muzak.
(d) Corn Flakes.
6. What did Terkel seek out en route to his university?
(a) A real American Hooverville.
(b) His high school sweetheart.
(c) Huey Long's home district.
(d) The blues.
7. Where did Harburg work before the Depression?
(a) Military services.
(b) Financial sector.
(c) Newpapers.
(d) University administration.
8. In a quote in the Introduction, how does the speaker describe the socioeconomic relationship between blacks and whites during the Depression?
(a) There was no way of telling, things were so bad.
(b) Blacks were always worse off.
(c) Blacks and whites were about equal for the first time.
(d) Blacks were actually better off.
9. At the end of High Life, what does Judy blame for the Depression?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Sin.
(c) Militarism.
(d) Consumption.
10. In Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where do Lily, Rob and Buck hear about the Depression?
(a) Television.
(b) Their school.
(c) Their parents.
(d) Their grandparents.
11. Why does Robin Langston think his family was unaffected by the Depression?
(a) They never bought on credit.
(b) Theirs was the most popular restaurant in town.
(c) Black communities were not affected by the Depression.
(d) They never had money to begin with.
12. 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) Consumerism.
(c) Fear.
(d) Racism.
13. Which of the following is not a periodical mentioned by Terkel in the Introduction?
(a) Literary Digest.
(b) Judge.
(c) The New Republic.
(d) Life.
14. What about modern America mystifies Diana Morgan?
(a) America's involvement with Vietnam.
(b) Those who ignore poverty.
(c) The widespread use of drugs.
(d) The election of Richard Nixon.
15. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?
(a) Auto workers.
(b) Writers.
(c) Corn growers.
(d) Jazz musicians.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Doc Graham, what was the only good thing Roosevelt did?
2. In her interview, what does Diana Morgan say never interested her?
3. How does Diana Morgan describe herself at the beginning of her interview?
4. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?
5. Who was the one black student in Terkel's college class?
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