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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Myrna Loy suspect of being the force behind her inability to meet FDR?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) Martin Dies.
(c) Louis B. Mayer.
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt.

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

3. What Depression-era event terrified social worker Eileen Barth?
(a) A union riot in Cleveland.
(b) A caseworker's murder.
(c) A bomb threat at her office.
(d) An assassination attemp on FDR.

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

5. What does Diane, the young journalist in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, resent about her parent's fixation on the Depression?
(a) It demeans her life experience.
(b) It ignores the racial reality of the events.
(c) It ignores the political reality of the events.
(d) They refuse to speak frankly to her about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what war did the Bonus marchers fight?

2. Of what does Virginia Durr say the Depression cured her?

3. Who does Billy Green credit with his success in business?

4. What did Blackie Gold do in the CCC during the Depression?

5. Which of the following figures from 1930's cultural-political life is not personally interviewed in Hard Times?

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