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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why would hobos put marks on people's houses with chalk?
(a) To tell other hobos if the people are good.
(b) To protest the banks' foreclosing on them.
(c) To say hello to loved ones.
(d) To track the places they have been.

2. 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.

3. In God Bless' the Child, Slim Collier discusses what effect created by job loss in America?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Economic.
(c) Political.
(d) Moral.

4. 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.

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

6. On what does Dr. David J. Rossman think modern Americans rely too heavily?
(a) Medication.
(b) Alchohol and drugs.
(c) The government.
(d) Themselves.

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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 end poverty in California.
(d) To create a work program.

11. Where did Harburg work before the Depression?
(a) Newpapers.
(b) Financial sector.
(c) Military services.
(d) University administration.

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

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

14. In what scant costume did Sally Rand enter the Beaux Arts ball?
(a) Eve.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Messalina.
(d) Lady Godiva.

15. According to a quotation in the Introduction, what was the typical response to receiving a pink slip during the beginning of the Depression?
(a) Bemusement.
(b) Shame.
(c) Pride.
(d) Numbness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Peggy Terry says in Hard Travelin' that what disappeared from her life during the Depression?

3. What did the Wagner Act outlaw?

4. According to Doc Graham, what was the only good thing Roosevelt did?

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

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