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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Corn farmers often switched to what agricultural product in the midst of the Depression?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Barley.
(c) Tobacco.
(d) Pigs.

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

4. Dr. Francis Townsend's ideas eventually became the groundwork for what?
(a) Medicaid.
(b) The New Deal.
(c) Social Security.
(d) The Civil Rights Movement.

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

6. At the end of his interview, Horace Cayton discusses why black Americans never joined what group en masse?
(a) The Wobblies.
(b) The Unions.
(c) The Communists.
(d) The Republicans.

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

8. In 1930's Appalachia, what does the KKK assist in setting up?
(a) Church raisings.
(b) Town hall meetings.
(c) Progressive political rallies.
(d) UMW locals.

9. 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 city park.
(d) A YMCA.

10. Of what sixties-era organization is Robert A. Baird's son Peter a member?
(a) The Yippies.
(b) VISTA.
(c) The Weathermen.
(d) The Hari-Krishnas.

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

12. What was different about a teachers' strike in the 1930's?
(a) They left town for fear of violent reprisal.
(b) They continued to teach throughout.
(c) They protested at City Hall, not the schools.
(d) They protested in private, writing letters.

13. What did Harry Hartman do in the 1930's when he felt bad for the indebted people he was serving?
(a) He would leave some belongings behind.
(b) He would say they were not home.
(c) He would give them the address of a Worker's Alliance.
(d) He would buy them a taxi to a shelter.

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

15. What does Alf Landon say he disliked about Roosevelt's New Deal?
(a) Almost nothing.
(b) The nationalization of industry.
(c) Its centralization of executive power.
(d) The Stalinist collectivism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Actors Union's response to The Cradle Will Rock?

2. Aaron Barkham informs the reader of what strange practice of certain clans within the Appalachian Ku Klux Klan?

3. Why was Hiram Sherman removed from Equity leadership?

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

5. What accusation was made against Dr. Francis Townsend in his time?

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