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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. At the end of his interview, Horace Cayton discusses why black Americans never joined what group en masse?
(a) The Unions.
(b) The Republicans.
(c) The Wobblies.
(d) The Communists.

2. According to Buddy Blankenship in Sixteen Ton, what did coal companies often pay instead of money?
(a) Food rations.
(b) Coal.
(c) IOUs.
(d) Company vouchers.

3. According to Scoop Lankford, when did conditions finally improve in the prison?
(a) When the rioting started.
(b) When Truman took office.
(c) When the war started.
(d) When the WPA started.

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

5. What shocking information did General Smedley Butler report to Congress in the 1930's?
(a) Hoover was absent for most meetings regarding the Depression.
(b) A group of right wing military men attempted a coup.
(c) There were Communists in the Roosevelt administration.
(d) Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbor ahead of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Three o'Clock in the Morning, Wilbur Kane's mother was bitter about the invasion of what?

2. What is the name of the sketch programs Neil Schaffner performed in troupes across the country?

3. What writer did Ray Wax take as his model during the Depression?

4. What marked Long's second-in-command Gerald Smith regarding his speeches?

5. What was Paul Draper's occupation during the 1930's?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What was the most controversial component of the New Deal?

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

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

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

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

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