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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the sit in of Three Strikes take place?
(a) A Rockefeller steel mill.
(b) A locally owned cloth factory.
(c) A cigarette manufactuing plant.
(d) A Ford auto plant.

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

3. What inversion of racial relationships happened regarding Robin Langston's father during the Depression?
(a) He was allowed to join the pipe-fitters' union.
(b) He was invited to move into a whites-only neighborhood.
(c) He began hiring white workers.
(d) White neighbors hocked their radios to him.

4. Who was the one black student in Terkel's college class?
(a) An African prince.
(b) An ancestor of Frederick Douglass.
(c) Marcus Garvey's grandson.
(d) Medgar Evers.

5. Why does Robin Langston think his family was unaffected by the Depression?
(a) Black communities were not affected by the Depression.
(b) They never bought on credit.
(c) They never had money to begin with.
(d) Theirs was the most popular restaurant in town.

6. What did Blackie Gold do in the CCC during the Depression?
(a) He maintained national forests.
(b) He wrote for a national labor journal.
(c) He assessed people on relief.
(d) He performed on the radio.

7. What did Jane Yoder consider a luxury during the Depression?
(a) A bed.
(b) A new sweater.
(c) A trip to the movies.
(d) A hot meal.

8. Which of the following is not an implement that interviewers in The March say was used to disperse marchers?
(a) Guns.
(b) Water cannon.
(c) Tear gas.
(d) Bayonets.

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

10. What term best describes the nature of the changes that happened after the 1929 Crash, from Terkel's perspective?
(a) Gradual.
(b) Sudden.
(c) Devastating.
(d) Nonexistent.

11. What happened to one of Daisy Singer's favorite parks during the Depression?
(a) It was closed by the broke municipal government.
(b) It fell into disrepair.
(c) It became a shantytown.
(d) It became a site of weekly worker protests.

12. How does E.D. Nixon's campaign to unionize the sleeping car porters end?
(a) The porters are given a vote and they vote against the union.
(b) Only NIxon's train line is unionized.
(c) They are all fired.
(d) The union is instituted.

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

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

15. What product did Benton manage after the Depression?
(a) Volkswagen.
(b) The Boston Globe.
(c) Corn Flakes.
(d) Muzak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Terkel seek out en route to his university?

2. Why did Martin DeVries hate Roosevelt?

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

4. Why did Win Stracke lose his work as a balladeer?

5. Which movement sought to replace the American Federation of Labor in the 1930's?

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