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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 was Bob La Follette's signature issue in the 1928 election?
(a) Worker's rights.
(b) Military isolation.
(c) Wall Street reform.
(d) Anti-union legislation.

2. On what does Dr. David J. Rossman think modern Americans rely too heavily?
(a) Medication.
(b) Themselves.
(c) The government.
(d) Alchohol and drugs.

3. In a quote in the Introduction, how does the speaker describe the socioeconomic relationship between blacks and whites during the Depression?
(a) Blacks were always worse off.
(b) There was no way of telling, things were so bad.
(c) Blacks and whites were about equal for the first time.
(d) Blacks were actually better off.

4. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?
(a) Jazz musicians.
(b) Corn growers.
(c) Auto workers.
(d) Writers.

5. What did Bob Leary's father do during much of the Depression to avoid going crazy?
(a) Have an affair.
(b) Fish at a nearby lake.
(c) Paint a house.
(d) Redo the upholstery of a car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the Michigan governor Frank Murphy branded weak-willed regarding the sit-in strike?

2. Which of the following is not an implement that interviewers in The March say was used to disperse marchers?

3. Which famous American film critic is interviewed in Hard Travelin'?

4. What recollection does Diana Morgan have that draws tears from her?

5. Why would hobos put marks on people's houses with chalk?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do interviewees who were young in the 1930's realize something bad happened in the country?

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

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

5. Describe E.D. Nixon's struggle to unionize sleeping car porters.

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

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

8. Who is Bob La Follette?

9. How did hobos get by during the Depression?

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

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