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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 1930's W. Clement Stone made his money selling what?
(a) Bibles.
(b) Wholesale grain feed.
(c) Life insurance.
(d) Cars.

2. What was Dorothea Lange's profession?
(a) Newspaper columnist.
(b) Economist.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Photographer.

3. What public figure publicly raved about Jack Kirkland's play?
(a) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(b) Huey Long.
(c) Harold Ickes.
(d) Orson Welles.

4. Who does Myrna Loy suspect of being the force behind her inability to meet FDR?
(a) Martin Dies.
(b) Louis B. Mayer.
(c) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(d) Harry Truman.

5. How were the actors able to perform the opening night of The Cradle Will Rock?
(a) They performed it in Spanish.
(b) They performed on the street.
(c) They performed from the audience.
(d) They recorded a performance and broadcast it.

6. According to Emma Teiller, why did armed men enter a relief house in her neighborhood?
(a) To ensure that blacks were being fairly served.
(b) To stop mobs threatening to burn it down.
(c) To keep Japanese Americans out of it.
(d) To keep an eye out for union organizers.

7. What legendary artist of the twentieth century directed The Cradle Will Rock?
(a) Lee Strasburg.
(b) Orson Welles.
(c) John Gielgud.
(d) Lawrence Olivier.

8. What memory makes Elsa Ponselle laugh during her interview in Public Servant-The City?
(a) The fear millionaires had during the Depression.
(b) The debates that led to the creation of the teacher's union.
(c) The propaganda posters the government put out.
(d) Her family accusing her of being a Bolshevik.

9. According to Gardiner Means, what ended with the Depression?
(a) Personal freedom.
(b) Laissez-faire.
(c) The Gold Standard.
(d) Federal intervention.

10. According to Max Shachtman, what international event ended credibility for Communism in the United States?
(a) The Cultural Revolution.
(b) The Hitler-Stalin Pact.
(c) Stalin's purges.
(d) Pearl Harbor.

11. What was Roosevelt trying to prevent with the Bank Holiday?
(a) A run on failing banks.
(b) Buyouts by large conglomerate banks.
(c) The emigration of bank owners.
(d) The decimation of people's savings.

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

13. What psychiatric complaints did Dr. Nathan Ackerman's patients most often bring to him?
(a) Tremors and nausea.
(b) Malaise and suicidal thoughts.
(c) Agoraphobia and narcolepsy.
(d) Anxiety and chronic sadness.

14. How was public housing viewed differently by the public in the 1930's than it is today?
(a) It was despised by the wealthy.
(b) It was open to people of all income brackets.
(c) It was not thoroughly understood.
(d) It was thought nicer than private housing.

15. What shocking information did General Smedley Butler report to Congress in the 1930's?
(a) Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbor ahead of time.
(b) Hoover was absent for most meetings regarding the Depression.
(c) A group of right wing military men attempted a coup.
(d) There were Communists in the Roosevelt administration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What writer did Ray Wax take as his model during the Depression?

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

3. With what assertion does David Kennedy say he disagrees regarding Roosevelt?

4. Why did Ray Wax flee his parents home?

5. What event discussed earlier in the book does Harry Norgard think was destructive to society?

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