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

2. What food can Dorothe Bernstein not stand because of her days in an orphanage?
(a) Pig's feet.
(b) Brussel sprouts.
(c) Sardines.
(d) Beets.

3. Where did Blackie Gold spend his childhood?
(a) A military post.
(b) A boarding school.
(c) An orphanage.
(d) Canada.

4. Where does the sit in of Three Strikes take place?
(a) A cigarette manufactuing plant.
(b) A Rockefeller steel mill.
(c) A Ford auto plant.
(d) A locally owned cloth factory.

5. What did Jane Yoder consider a luxury during the Depression?
(a) A hot meal.
(b) A new sweater.
(c) A trip to the movies.
(d) A bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advertising outlet did William Benton exploit, making him his fortune?

2. What young officer assisted MacArthur in dispersing the Bonus Marchers?

3. At the end of High Life, what does Judy blame for the Depression?

4. In Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where do Lily, Rob and Buck hear about the Depression?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did the Bonus March end?

5. What connection is made between fear and the Depression in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?

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

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

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

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

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

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