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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What event discussed earlier in the book does Harry Norgard think was destructive to society?
(a) The Detroit sit-in.
(b) The Bank Holiday.
(c) The Cradle Will Rock premiere.
(d) The Chicago teachers' strike.

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

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

5. Why did Huey Long not run for president in 1936?
(a) He became Roosevelt's Chief of Staff.
(b) He was assassinated.
(c) He was embroiled in scandals.
(d) He chose to retire.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of The Fine and Lively Arts, Hiram Sherman speaks glowingly of drinking covert gin out of what?

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

3. What did Hiram Sherman do in The Cradle Will Rock?

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

5. As he entered his later years, what term did Roosevelt use to describe himself among aides?

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