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

2. What happened to Orrin Kelly after the incident with the Iowa judge?
(a) He had to flee town.
(b) He became judge of the county.
(c) He was arrested.
(d) He interviewed the leaders of the mob.

3. In the 1930's W. Clement Stone made his money selling what?
(a) Cars.
(b) Life insurance.
(c) Bibles.
(d) Wholesale grain feed.

4. As described in The Farmer Is the Man, how did a mob respond to a judge who was foreclosing on homes in Iowa?
(a) They lobbied to have him removed.
(b) They burned down his house.
(c) They tarred and feathered him.
(d) They lynched him.

5. According to Emma Teiller, why did armed men enter a relief house in her neighborhood?
(a) To keep an eye out for union organizers.
(b) To ensure that blacks were being fairly served.
(c) To keep Japanese Americans out of it.
(d) To stop mobs threatening to burn it down.

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose administration was David Kennedy the Secretary of the Treasury?

2. Why did Huey Long not run for president in 1936?

3. What is Stanley Kell's community organization trying to prevent at the time he is interviewed?

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

5. What does Wilbur Kane remember most vividly about Franklin Roosevelt?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What humiliation did Ward James face seeking relief in the 1930's?

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

7. Who was Martin Dies?

8. How did Ray Wax's life disillusion him to the idea of strive-and-succeed?

9. What did Hiram Sherman do after The Cradle Will Rock?

10. How were the prisons affected by the Depression?

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