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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What controversial action did the Rural Rehabilitation Division undertake in the 1930's?
(a) It nationalized the dairy industry.
(b) It slaughtered thousands of cows.
(c) It tried to buy out General Mills.
(d) It combined farms under a federal banner.

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

3. Besides attempting to change the makeup of the Supreme Court, what Roosevelt decision does James Farley say alienated people in the administration?
(a) Running for a third term.
(b) Entering World War II.
(c) Creating the NRA.
(d) Not revealing his health problems to the public.

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

5. Where did Max R. Naiman and his worker's rights clients end up sleeping after he got them acquitted?
(a) A YMCA.
(b) A boxcar.
(c) A city park.
(d) On the steps of the courthouse.

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

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

9. What writer did Ray Wax take as his model during the Depression?
(a) Upton Sinclair.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(d) Horatio Alger.

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

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

12. What public figure publicly raved about Jack Kirkland's play?
(a) Harold Ickes.
(b) Huey Long.
(c) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(d) Orson Welles.

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

14. As he entered his later years, what term did Roosevelt use to describe himself among aides?
(a) King Frank.
(b) The poor public servant.
(c) Ozymandias.
(d) The indispensible man.

15. With what assertion does David Kennedy say he disagrees regarding Roosevelt?
(a) He bought his elections.
(b) His programs stemmed suffering.
(c) He was a Communist.
(d) He saved America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Edward Burgess discuss buying at the beginning of his interview in Merely Passing Through?

2. Why did Ray Wax flee his parents home?

3. According to historian Christopher Lasch, what was never a serious possibility in the Depression?

4. What was Dorothea Lange's profession?

5. How does Dr. Martin Bickham recommend his employers help struggling Americans during the Depression?

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