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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 did Arthur Robinson do before entering the financial markets?
(a) He was a war correspondent.
(b) He was a tobacco picker.
(c) He was an actor.
(d) He was a school teacher.

2. What did Terkel seek out en route to his university?
(a) Huey Long's home district.
(b) His high school sweetheart.
(c) The blues.
(d) A real American Hooverville.

3. What young officer assisted MacArthur in dispersing the Bonus Marchers?
(a) Curtis LeMay.
(b) John Kennedy.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower.
(d) George Patton.

4. Why was the Michigan governor Frank Murphy branded weak-willed regarding the sit-in strike?
(a) He refused to comment on the strike.
(b) He did not send in troops.
(c) He came out in support of the union.
(d) He disappeared from public after condemning the strike.

5. What did Slim Collier's father do before the Depression?
(a) Die work.
(b) Smelting.
(c) Copywriting.
(d) Landscaping.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a periodical mentioned by Terkel in the Introduction?

2. Where did Arthur Robinson keep thousands of dollars during the bank holiday?

3. According to a quotation in the Introduction, what was the typical response to receiving a pink slip during the beginning of the Depression?

4. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the purpose of the Bonus March?

2. How did William Benton make his fortune?

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

4. How did the "southern belle" Diane Morgan become socially conscious in the 1930's?

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

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

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

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

9. Why is Jerome Zerbe's interview oddly disturbing?

10. How does Terkel explain his purposes in writing Hard Times?

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