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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3: Concerning the New Deal, An Unreconstructed Populist, Peroration.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened that made Robin Langston realize a crisis had begun in the country?
(a) His family stopped eating meat.
(b) His friend's father killed himself.
(c) He had to miss days of school.
(d) His lights were turned off.

2. According to Doc Graham, what was the public's attitude toward figures like Machine Gun Kelly and John Dillinger in the 1930's?
(a) They were commodities to be sold.
(b) They were boogeymen.
(c) They were barely talked about.
(d) They were folk heroes.

3. What inversion of racial relationships happened regarding Robin Langston's father during the Depression?
(a) He was allowed to join the pipe-fitters' union.
(b) White neighbors hocked their radios to him.
(c) He began hiring white workers.
(d) He was invited to move into a whites-only neighborhood.

4. As he entered his later years, what term did Roosevelt use to describe himself among aides?
(a) The poor public servant.
(b) King Frank.
(c) Ozymandias.
(d) The indispensible man.

5. In whose administration was David Kennedy the Secretary of the Treasury?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jim Sheridan travel to the Bonus March?

2. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?

3. Where did Harburg work before the Depression?

4. When were the collectivized camps outside of urban centers closed?

5. What did Slim Collier's father do before the Depression?

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