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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 accusation was made against Dr. Francis Townsend in his time?
(a) Being a Communist.
(b) Womanizing behavior.
(c) Stealing from the elderly.
(d) Aspiring to the Presidency.

2. What did the Chicago Worker's Alliance protect against?
(a) Relief fraud.
(b) Employer intimidation.
(c) Health violations.
(d) Evictions.

3. What did Hiram Sherman do in The Cradle Will Rock?
(a) He was a stagehand.
(b) He wrote it.
(c) He was an actor.
(d) He directed it.

4. What was Dorothea Lange's profession?
(a) Economist.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Photographer.
(d) Newspaper columnist.

5. What writer did Ray Wax take as his model during the Depression?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Horatio Alger.
(c) Upton Sinclair.
(d) John Steinbeck.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ray Wax flee his parents home?

2. According to Buddy Blankenship in Sixteen Ton, what did coal companies often pay instead of money?

3. Who played the piano for opening night of The Cradle Will Rock?

4. What two roles did Henry Wallace play in the Roosevelt administration?

5. What moment excited Wilbur Kane to the point of mocking his German neighbors?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Elizabeth Wood, how did public housing develop the stigma it has today?

2. How does Christopher Lasch explain the possibility of a socialist revolt in the 1930's?

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

4. How were the prisons affected by the Depression?

5. How does Alf Landon recall his 1936 campaign against Roosevelt in the book?

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

7. How does Max Shachtman explain the decline of Communism's popularity in America?

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

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

10. Describe Harry Hartman's experiences repossessing belongings in the Depression.

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