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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Paulson eventually get after educating himself?
(a) Railway worker.
(b) Union organizer.
(c) Social worker.
(d) Primary school teacher.

2. What does Diane personally think about the suffering of the 1930's in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
(a) She thinks it is exaggerated by those who experienced it.
(b) She thinks the suffering was focused disproportionately on minorities.
(c) She has no opinion.
(d) She thinks America reaped what it sowed in the 1920's.

3. In what war did the Bonus marchers fight?
(a) World War I.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Crimean War.
(d) The Spanish American War.

4. What demagogic figure of the 1930's did Dawn McCullough despise?
(a) Franklin Roosevelt.
(b) Bob La Follette.
(c) Huey Long.
(d) Father Coughlin.

5. What recollection does Diana Morgan have that draws tears from her?
(a) Losing her house.
(b) Having to stand on line for a job.
(c) Interviewing her former maid for relief.
(d) Her father's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What young officer assisted MacArthur in dispersing the Bonus Marchers?

2. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?

3. According to Terkel, what increased among patrons of his parent's business after the Crash?

4. Why does Robin Langston think his family was unaffected by the Depression?

5. Why did Martin DeVries hate Roosevelt?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Yip Harburg find his way to making music?

2. How did blues and alcohol play a defining role in Terkel's college years?

3. What does Phyllis Mortimer do when her family falls on hard times in the 1930's?

4. How did Blackie Gold end up maintaining national forests in the 1930's?

5. What does Peggy Terry have to say about race and the Depression?

6. During the Depression, what did Terkel do instead of becoming a lawyer?

7. How did the effects of the Crash become apparent in Terkel's parents' business?

8. How was Dr. Lewis Andreas converted to union support in 1937?

9. Why was psychoanalysis largely ineffective in the Depression?

10. How did hobos get by during the Depression?

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