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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What change to the ticket structure did the Schaffner Players make after the 1929 Crash?
(a) They increased their ticket rates.
(b) They stopped charging all together.
(c) They only charged for first acts.
(d) They only charged for second acts.

2. According to Max Shachtman, why was Communism especially vital just before FDR was elected?
(a) Hoover's administration was riddled with communists.
(b) World War I destabilized many western democracies.
(c) The US seemed set to ally with the USSR.
(d) Capitalism seemed doomed.

3. What Depression-era event terrified social worker Eileen Barth?
(a) A bomb threat at her office.
(b) A caseworker's murder.
(c) A union riot in Cleveland.
(d) An assassination attemp on FDR.

4. What is Stanley Kell's community organization trying to prevent at the time he is interviewed?
(a) Construction of a country club nearby.
(b) New fire code regulations.
(c) Unionization of the paper printers.
(d) Black families moving in.

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

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

7. What did the Chicago Worker's Alliance protect against?
(a) Health violations.
(b) Evictions.
(c) Employer intimidation.
(d) Relief fraud.

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

9. What issue does Stanley Kell surprisingly support?
(a) George McGovern's campaign.
(b) Leaving Vietnam.
(c) Legalizing marijuana.
(d) Integration.

10. What was Huey Long's central message in his nationally broadcast speeches?
(a) Establishing a national bank.
(b) Redistibution of wealth.
(c) Entering World War II.
(d) Segregation.

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

12. 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.

13. What did Hiram Sherman do in The Cradle Will Rock?
(a) He directed it.
(b) He was an actor.
(c) He wrote it.
(d) He was a stagehand.

14. According to historian Christopher Lasch, what was never a serious possibility in the Depression?
(a) A right-wing reaction.
(b) Loss of personal freedom.
(c) Annexation by Canada.
(d) Revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Samuel A. Heller, what did police often do with arraigned people awaiting trial in the 1930's?

2. Besides attempting to change the makeup of the Supreme Court, what Roosevelt decision does James Farley say alienated people in the administration?

3. What was the name of the private relief organization that Dr. Martin Bickham worked with in the 1930's?

4. In 1930's Appalachia, what does the KKK assist in setting up?

5. What was Dorothea Lange's profession?

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