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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why was Hiram Sherman removed from Equity leadership?
(a) He voted to disband the union.
(b) He quit acting.
(c) He was branded a communist.
(d) He performed The Cradle Will Rock.

4. According to Fred Thompson, what did Wobblies constantly have to prove they were not?
(a) Communists.
(b) Anarchists.
(c) Fascists.
(d) Mormons.

5. What moment excited Wilbur Kane to the point of mocking his German neighbors?
(a) Joe Louis's victory over Schmeling.
(b) America entering the War.
(c) Jesse Owens' win in the Berlin Olympics.
(d) The death of Adolf Hitler.

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

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

8. 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.

9. What does the young man in the final interview of Arrests and Other Running Sores do for a living?
(a) Repo man.
(b) Public defender.
(c) Convenience store clerk.
(d) Student.

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

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

12. As described in The Farmer Is the Man, how did a mob respond to a judge who was foreclosing on homes in Iowa?
(a) They lynched him.
(b) They tarred and feathered him.
(c) They burned down his house.
(d) They lobbied to have him removed.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was different about a teachers' strike in the 1930's?

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

3. What happened to Orrin Kelly after the incident with the Iowa judge?

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

5. Who was the head of the red-baiting committee that investigated New Deal administrators in the 1930's?

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