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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. Who played the piano for opening night of The Cradle Will Rock?
(a) George Gershwin.
(b) Hiram Sherman.
(c) Marc Blitzstein.
(d) John Houseman.

2. When were the collectivized camps outside of urban centers closed?
(a) When America entered World War II.
(b) When Roosevelt died.
(c) The seventies.
(d) When the stock market crashed.

3. To whom did Myrna Loy send her infamous wire?
(a) A Soviet defector.
(b) Churchill.
(c) Trotsky.
(d) A Czech dissident.

4. What event discussed earlier in the book does Harry Norgard think was destructive to society?
(a) The Chicago teachers' strike.
(b) The Bank Holiday.
(c) The Cradle Will Rock premiere.
(d) The Detroit sit-in.

5. What was Huey Long's central message in his nationally broadcast speeches?
(a) Entering World War II.
(b) Establishing a national bank.
(c) Redistibution of wealth.
(d) Segregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Harry Hartman do in the 1930's when he felt bad for the indebted people he was serving?

2. In the 1930's W. Clement Stone made his money selling what?

3. At the end of his interview, Horace Cayton discusses why black Americans never joined what group en masse?

4. Who does Myrna Loy suspect of being the force behind her inability to meet FDR?

5. Why did C. Wright Patman push for the impeachment of Hoover's Treasury Secretary?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did The Cradle Will Rock become a lightning rod of controversy?

2. What was Edward Burgess's experience of the 1930's?

3. Describe the incident with the Iowa Judge in The Father Is the Man?

4. How much power did coal companies have in the towns they inhabited?

5. According to James Farley, how did Roosevelt alienate members of his own administration?

6. Who was Martin Dies?

7. How did Neil Schaffner's theatre troupe have to change their business model after the Crash 1929?

8. What strange and dangerous episode regarding congressional testimony does C. Wright Patman make?

9. What safety concerns pervaded mines in the 1930's?

10. What strange dichotomy exists in Stanley Kell's interview in Honor and Humiliation?

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