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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5: The Fine and Lively Arts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Bob La Follette before he ran for President?
(a) A Republican governor of Wisconsin.
(b) A military advisor to Hoover.
(c) The owner of a chain of delis.
(d) The Secretary of Education.

2. What controversial action did the Rural Rehabilitation Division undertake in the 1930's?
(a) It nationalized the dairy industry.
(b) It combined farms under a federal banner.
(c) It tried to buy out General Mills.
(d) It slaughtered thousands of cows.

3. What promise did Upton Sinclair make to his supporters during his run for governor of California?
(a) To create a work program.
(b) To secede from the US.
(c) To end poverty in California.
(d) To extract public money from industrialists.

4. Besides attempting to change the makeup of the Supreme Court, what Roosevelt decision does James Farley say alienated people in the administration?
(a) Not revealing his health problems to the public.
(b) Creating the NRA.
(c) Entering World War II.
(d) Running for a third term.

5. How were the actors able to perform the opening night of The Cradle Will Rock?
(a) They performed on the street.
(b) They recorded a performance and broadcast it.
(c) They performed it in Spanish.
(d) They performed from the audience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous American film critic is interviewed in Hard Travelin'?

2. What does Edward Burgess say he never saw in Chicago in the 1930's?

3. Aaron Barkham informs the reader of what strange practice of certain clans within the Appalachian Ku Klux Klan?

4. What safety practice do coal companies refuse to implement for fear of slowing production in the 1930's?

5. What happened to Orrin Kelly after the incident with the Iowa judge?

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