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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In her interview, what does Diana Morgan say never interested her?
(a) Communism.
(b) The suffering of others.
(c) The accumulation of money.
(d) Political struggle.

2. Why would hobos put marks on people's houses with chalk?
(a) To say hello to loved ones.
(b) To track the places they have been.
(c) To protest the banks' foreclosing on them.
(d) To tell other hobos if the people are good.

3. What did Terkel's parents do for a living before the Depression?
(a) They worked for a newspaper.
(b) They were actuaries.
(c) They worked a farm.
(d) They ran a hotel.

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

5. According to Terkel, what increased among patrons of his parent's business after the Crash?
(a) Horse-betting.
(b) Emigrating to Mexico.
(c) Panhandling.
(d) Suicide.

6. What did Arthur Robinson do before entering the financial markets?
(a) He was an actor.
(b) He was a war correspondent.
(c) He was a school teacher.
(d) He was a tobacco picker.

7. What demagogic figure of the 1930's did Dawn McCullough despise?
(a) Huey Long.
(b) Franklin Roosevelt.
(c) Bob La Follette.
(d) Father Coughlin.

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

9. What did Blackie Gold do in the CCC during the Depression?
(a) He maintained national forests.
(b) He performed on the radio.
(c) He assessed people on relief.
(d) He wrote for a national labor journal.

10. How many people does Terkel Interview in this introduction?
(a) 5.
(b) 0.
(c) 12.
(d) 2.

11. What about modern America mystifies Diana Morgan?
(a) The election of Richard Nixon.
(b) America's involvement with Vietnam.
(c) The widespread use of drugs.
(d) Those who ignore poverty.

12. What did Jane Yoder consider a luxury during the Depression?
(a) A new sweater.
(b) A bed.
(c) A trip to the movies.
(d) A hot meal.

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

14. What does Diane personally think about the suffering of the 1930's in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
(a) She thinks America reaped what it sowed in the 1920's.
(b) She thinks it is exaggerated by those who experienced it.
(c) She thinks the suffering was focused disproportionately on minorities.
(d) She has no opinion.

15. Why did Martin DeVries hate Roosevelt?
(a) Roosevelt attacked the free market system.
(b) Roosevelt got America into World War II.
(c) Roosevelt came from money.
(d) Roosevelt tried to pack the court.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, where do Lily, Rob and Buck hear about the Depression?

2. What industry did Jose Yglesia attempt to unionize?

3. In what war did the Bonus marchers fight?

4. Which movement sought to replace the American Federation of Labor in the 1930's?

5. What dubious art did Jerome Zerbe develop in the 1930's?

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