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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Dr. Lewis Andreas help strikers in Chicago in 1937?
(a) He wrote op-eds for them.
(b) He contributed thousands to their employment fund.
(c) He provided free healthcare to them.
(d) He lobbied senators and congressmen on their behalf.

2. What term best describes the nature of the changes that happened after the 1929 Crash, from Terkel's perspective?
(a) Nonexistent.
(b) Sudden.
(c) Gradual.
(d) Devastating.

3. What was Dorothea Lange's profession?
(a) Newspaper columnist.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Economist.
(d) Photographer.

4. Which of the following areas of political study is not discussed in Hard Times?
(a) Roosevelt's decision to run for a third term.
(b) Alf Landon's 1936 presidential campaign.
(c) Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court.
(d) Truman's transition to the presidency.

5. What did Terkel seek out en route to his university?
(a) A real American Hooverville.
(b) The blues.
(c) Huey Long's home district.
(d) His high school sweetheart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What issue does Stanley Kell surprisingly support?

2. Who was the head of the red-baiting committee that investigated New Deal administrators in the 1930's?

3. What food staple did Virginia press dispensaries to open during the Depression?

4. What does the young man in the final interview of Arrests and Other Running Sores do for a living?

5. What job does Paulson eventually get after educating himself?

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