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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who played the piano for opening night of The Cradle Will Rock?
(a) John Houseman.
(b) Marc Blitzstein.
(c) Hiram Sherman.
(d) George Gershwin.

3. During the Depression, why did farmers systematically stop corn deliveries?
(a) To highlight their struggle to survive.
(b) To boost the price.
(c) To feed locals.
(d) The avoid the spread of colic.

4. 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 city park.
(c) A YMCA.
(d) A boxcar.

5. What does Emma Tiller say in her interview is as important as money?
(a) Dignity.
(b) Companionship.
(c) Work.
(d) Faith.

6. What does Wilbur Kane still dislike about Roosevelt?
(a) He waited too long to take on Hitler.
(b) He did away with the NRA.
(c) He tried to pack the Supreme Court.
(d) He stayed in office past two full terms.

7. In what country did William Patterson study economics for a time?
(a) The USSR.
(b) England.
(c) China.
(d) Germany.

8. Why did Ray Wax flee his parents home?
(a) He eloped with a girl.
(b) He wanted to move to New York City.
(c) They kicked him out for his Communist beliefs.
(d) They were stealing his money.

9. What was the Actors Union's response to The Cradle Will Rock?
(a) It stipulated only five of its members could perform in it.
(b) It barred actors from performing it onstage.
(c) It insisted the production go on as scheduled.
(d) It refused to intervene.

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

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

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

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

14. What happened to Orrin Kelly after the incident with the Iowa judge?
(a) He interviewed the leaders of the mob.
(b) He became judge of the county.
(c) He was arrested.
(d) He had to flee town.

15. According to Scoop Lankford, when did conditions finally improve in the prison?
(a) When the rioting started.
(b) When the WPA started.
(c) When Truman took office.
(d) When the war started.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Wilbur Kane remember most vividly about Franklin Roosevelt?

3. What psychiatric complaints did Dr. Nathan Ackerman's patients most often bring to him?

4. Corn farmers often switched to what agricultural product in the midst of the Depression?

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

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