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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. Why does Robin Langston think his family was unaffected by the Depression?
(a) They never bought on credit.
(b) Theirs was the most popular restaurant in town.
(c) They never had money to begin with.
(d) Black communities were not affected by the Depression.

2. What did an industrialist ask Gordon Baxter to destroy for him?
(a) A cudgel used to kill a union leader.
(b) Anti-union pamphlets.
(c) A union card.
(d) Dossiers on his workers.

3. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?
(a) They refuse to speak frankly to her about it.
(b) It demeans her life experience.
(c) It ignores the racial reality of the events.
(d) It ignores the political reality of the events.

4. How did Phyllis Mortimer's brother feel about her working in the 1930's?
(a) Embarrassed
(b) Proud.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Unconcerned.

5. What unorthodox job did Phyllis Mortimer take when her family fell short of money in the 1930's?
(a) Chorus diver in movies.
(b) Door girl for a speakeasy.
(c) Switchboard operator for an advertising firm.
(d) Card girl at boxing matches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term best describes the nature of the changes that happened after the 1929 Crash, from Terkel's perspective?

2. In Hard Travelin', what does Peggy Terry think would happen if another Depression happened today?

3. Where does the sit in of Three Strikes take place?

4. Who was the one black student in Terkel's college class?

5. What book does Terkel quote in the introduction to explain his purpose in writing this history?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Arthur Robinson experience after the Wall Street Crash of 1929?

2. How was Robin Langston's family affected by the Depression?

3. How did hobos get by during the Depression?

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

5. How did the jazz community take care of its own in the Depression?

6. How did Mrs. Winston Roberts of Chicago survive the Depression?

7. How did a small community develop around the Ford plant strike in Detroit?

8. Why was psychoanalysis largely ineffective in the Depression?

9. Who is Bob La Follette?

10. What does Slim Collier's discussion of her father say about the effect unemployment has on men?

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