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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. How were the actors able to perform the opening night of The Cradle Will Rock?
(a) They performed from the audience.
(b) They performed on the street.
(c) They recorded a performance and broadcast it.
(d) They performed it in Spanish.

2. What popular American novel did Jack Kirkland adapt into a successful play?
(a) The Jungle.
(b) Tender is the Night.
(c) Of Mice and Men.
(d) Tobacco Road.

3. What does Edward Burgess discuss buying at the beginning of his interview in Merely Passing Through?
(a) A pair of Florsheim shoes.
(b) A rack of lamb.
(c) A Studebaker.
(d) A yacht.

4. What Depression-era event terrified social worker Eileen Barth?
(a) A union riot in Cleveland.
(b) A bomb threat at her office.
(c) A caseworker's murder.
(d) An assassination attemp on FDR.

5. Corn farmers often switched to what agricultural product in the midst of the Depression?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Barley.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to historian Christopher Lasch, what was never a serious possibility in the Depression?

2. What does Wilbur Kane still dislike about Roosevelt?

3. What did the Chicago Worker's Alliance protect against?

4. What type of protest does Horace Cayton discuss in Honor and Humiliation?

5. According to Scoop Lankford, when did conditions finally improve in the prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Jack Kirkland become famous during the Depression?

2. How were the prisons affected by the Depression?

3. According to Horace Cayton, why did black Americans not join the Communists en masse?

4. How did Wilbur Kane experience the Joe Louis fight against Max Schmeling?

5. Who was Martin Dies?

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

7. Why does Myrna Loy think she never got to meet Roosevelt in person?

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

9. What role did Elsa Ponselle play in the forming of the Teacher's Union?

10. In the Depression-era Midwest, how did corn prices lead to corn being burned and pigs being slaughtered?

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