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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. Which movement sought to replace the American Federation of Labor in the 1930's?
(a) The CIO.
(b) The Communists.
(c) The Catholic Workers.
(d) The Wobblies.

8. What did Slim Collier's father do before the Depression?
(a) Landscaping.
(b) Copywriting.
(c) Smelting.
(d) Die work.

9. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?
(a) Writers.
(b) Jazz musicians.
(c) Auto workers.
(d) Corn growers.

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

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

12. According to Harburg, who suffered most when the financial system collapsed?
(a) Those who thought it foolproof.
(b) Those who were poor already.
(c) The financial giants.
(d) Black people.

13. What did Bob Leary's father do during much of the Depression to avoid going crazy?
(a) Redo the upholstery of a car.
(b) Paint a house.
(c) Have an affair.
(d) Fish at a nearby lake.

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

15. Which famous American film critic is interviewed in Hard Travelin'?
(a) Vincent Canby.
(b) Gene Siskel.
(c) Pauline Kael.
(d) Roger Ebert.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jim Sheridan travel to the Bonus March?

2. How did Dr. Lewis Andreas help strikers in Chicago in 1937?

3. How many people does Terkel Interview in this introduction?

4. How did Phyllis Mortimer's brother feel about her working in the 1930's?

5. In a quote in the Introduction, how does the speaker describe the socioeconomic relationship between blacks and whites during the Depression?

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