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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Huey Long not run for president in 1936?
(a) He chose to retire.
(b) He was assassinated.
(c) He became Roosevelt's Chief of Staff.
(d) He was embroiled in scandals.

2. What writer did Ray Wax take as his model during the Depression?
(a) John Steinbeck.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Horatio Alger.
(d) Upton Sinclair.

3. What does Wilbur Kane remember most vividly about Franklin Roosevelt?
(a) His cufflinks.
(b) His voice.
(c) His smile.
(d) His tailcoats.

4. When were the collectivized camps outside of urban centers closed?
(a) When Roosevelt died.
(b) When America entered World War II.
(c) When the stock market crashed.
(d) The seventies.

5. According to Buddy Blankenship in Sixteen Ton, what was the state of coal miners before the Depression?
(a) A normal middle-class community.
(b) Absurdly prosperous.
(c) Moderately well-to-do.
(d) The same as during the Depression.

6. Why was Ward James fired from his job in the 1930's?
(a) Incompetence.
(b) Lack of money to pay him.
(c) Union activity.
(d) Drinking on the job.

7. What did the prison where Scoop Lankford was held in the 1930's try to feed the inmates at the worst times?
(a) Gruel.
(b) Rotten sardines.
(c) Gristle.
(d) Shark.

8. As he entered his later years, what term did Roosevelt use to describe himself among aides?
(a) The poor public servant.
(b) Ozymandias.
(c) King Frank.
(d) The indispensible man.

9. What popular American novel did Jack Kirkland adapt into a successful play?
(a) Tender is the Night.
(b) The Jungle.
(c) Tobacco Road.
(d) Of Mice and Men.

10. Who was the head of the red-baiting committee that investigated New Deal administrators in the 1930's?
(a) Joseph McCarthy.
(b) C. Wright Patman.
(c) Martin Dies.
(d) Stanley Fish.

11. According to Buddy Blankenship in Sixteen Ton, what did coal companies often pay instead of money?
(a) Food rations.
(b) Coal.
(c) IOUs.
(d) Company vouchers.

12. Why does Billy Green say he was unaffected by the Depression?
(a) He invested in his own business.
(b) He had no stocks.
(c) He invested in gold.
(d) He had his money overseas.

13. Where did Max R. Naiman and his worker's rights clients end up sleeping after he got them acquitted?
(a) On the steps of the courthouse.
(b) A boxcar.
(c) A YMCA.
(d) A city park.

14. What marked Long's second-in-command Gerald Smith regarding his speeches?
(a) His vulgarity.
(b) His stutter.
(c) His lack of clarity.
(d) His anti-Semitism.

15. In whose administration was David Kennedy the Secretary of the Treasury?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Paul Draper's occupation during the 1930's?

2. According to Scoop Lankford, when did conditions finally improve in the prison?

3. How did some states begin paying public school teachers in the 1930's?

4. What was Roosevelt trying to prevent with the Bank Holiday?

5. What does Edward Burgess say he never saw in Chicago in the 1930's?

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