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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. In Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where do Lily, Rob and Buck hear about the Depression?
(a) Their school.
(b) Their grandparents.
(c) Television.
(d) Their parents.

2. What did Terkel's parents do for a living before the Depression?
(a) They worked for a newspaper.
(b) They worked a farm.
(c) They ran a hotel.
(d) They were actuaries.

3. What strange job does Terkel get right after college?
(a) Circus booker.
(b) Dustbin salesman.
(c) Radio performer.
(d) Advertising copy editor.

4. At the end of High Life, what does Judy blame for the Depression?
(a) Sin.
(b) Militarism.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Apathy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Man and Boy, what does Clifford Burke credit with black men's survival in the Depression?

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

3. How did strike organizers in Detroit finally stop scabs from coming?

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

5. How many people does Terkel Interview in this introduction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the purpose of the Bonus March?

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

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

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

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

6. How did hobos get by during the Depression?

7. Why was psychoanalysis largely ineffective in the Depression?

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

9. Who is Bob La Follette?

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

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