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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 entertainment did Sally Rand invent?
(a) The Charleston.
(b) The fan dance.
(c) The penny arcade.
(d) The knock-knock joke.

2. Who was the one black student in Terkel's college class?
(a) An ancestor of Frederick Douglass.
(b) Medgar Evers.
(c) Marcus Garvey's grandson.
(d) An African prince.

3. How does Diana Morgan describe herself at the beginning of her interview?
(a) A habitual instigator.
(b) A lost cause.
(c) A woman of ill repute.
(d) A southern belle.

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

5. What inversion of racial relationships happened regarding Robin Langston's father during the Depression?
(a) White neighbors hocked their radios to him.
(b) He was allowed to join the pipe-fitters' union.
(c) He began hiring white workers.
(d) He was invited to move into a whites-only neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jane Yoder consider a luxury during the Depression?

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

3. What did Blackie Gold do in the CCC during the Depression?

4. According to Doc Graham, what was the public's attitude toward figures like Machine Gun Kelly and John Dillinger in the 1930's?

5. What product did Benton manage after the Depression?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Doc Graham's attitude toward Franklin Roosevelt?

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

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

4. What resources for the transient did Ed Paulson discover during the Depression?

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

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

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

8. How did hobos get by during the Depression?

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

10. How did the Bonus March end?

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