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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1: Bonnie Laboring Boy, Three Strikes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?
(a) Jazz musicians.
(b) Writers.
(c) Corn growers.
(d) Auto workers.

2. Where does the sit in of Three Strikes take place?
(a) A locally owned cloth factory.
(b) A Rockefeller steel mill.
(c) A Ford auto plant.
(d) A cigarette manufactuing plant.

3. What job does Paulson eventually get after educating himself?
(a) Primary school teacher.
(b) Social worker.
(c) Railway worker.
(d) Union organizer.

4. Where did Harburg work before the Depression?
(a) Newpapers.
(b) University administration.
(c) Military services.
(d) Financial sector.

5. How old was Ed Paulson when he took to the road?
(a) 14.
(b) 33.
(c) 40.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous Depression tune did Yip Harburg write?

2. Peggy Terry says in Hard Travelin' that what disappeared from her life during the Depression?

3. In a quote in the Introduction, how does the speaker describe the socioeconomic relationship between blacks and whites during the Depression?

4. What food can Dorothe Bernstein not stand because of her days in an orphanage?

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

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