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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Ray Wax flee his parents home?
(a) They kicked him out for his Communist beliefs.
(b) He eloped with a girl.
(c) They were stealing his money.
(d) He wanted to move to New York City.

2. According to Scoop Lankford, when did conditions finally improve in the prison?
(a) When the WPA started.
(b) When Truman took office.
(c) When the rioting started.
(d) When the war started.

3. To whom did Myrna Loy send her infamous wire?
(a) A Soviet defector.
(b) Churchill.
(c) A Czech dissident.
(d) Trotsky.

4. What shocking information did General Smedley Butler report to Congress in the 1930's?
(a) Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbor ahead of time.
(b) There were Communists in the Roosevelt administration.
(c) Hoover was absent for most meetings regarding the Depression.
(d) A group of right wing military men attempted a coup.

5. Corn farmers often switched to what agricultural product in the midst of the Depression?
(a) Barley.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Tobacco.

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

7. What was Paul Draper's occupation during the 1930's?
(a) Actor.
(b) Dancer.
(c) Playwright.
(d) Photographer.

8. What was Huey Long's central message in his nationally broadcast speeches?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Redistibution of wealth.
(c) Establishing a national bank.
(d) Entering World War II.

9. What writer did Ray Wax take as his model during the Depression?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Upton Sinclair.
(c) Horatio Alger.
(d) John Steinbeck.

10. What happened to Orrin Kelly after the incident with the Iowa judge?
(a) He became judge of the county.
(b) He was arrested.
(c) He interviewed the leaders of the mob.
(d) He had to flee town.

11. Why was Hiram Sherman removed from Equity leadership?
(a) He voted to disband the union.
(b) He quit acting.
(c) He performed The Cradle Will Rock.
(d) He was branded a communist.

12. What does the young man in the final interview of Arrests and Other Running Sores do for a living?
(a) Public defender.
(b) Student.
(c) Repo man.
(d) Convenience store clerk.

13. What was Roosevelt trying to prevent with the Bank Holiday?
(a) Buyouts by large conglomerate banks.
(b) A run on failing banks.
(c) The emigration of bank owners.
(d) The decimation of people's savings.

14. What two roles did Henry Wallace play in the Roosevelt administration?
(a) Secretary of Transportation and Chief of Staff.
(b) Secretary of the Interior and English Ambassador.
(c) Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President.
(d) Secretary of Commerce and Attorney General.

15. Who was the head of the red-baiting committee that investigated New Deal administrators in the 1930's?
(a) Martin Dies.
(b) Stanley Fish.
(c) C. Wright Patman.
(d) Joseph McCarthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Stanley Kell's community organization trying to prevent at the time he is interviewed?

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

3. According to Max Shachtman, what international event ended credibility for Communism in the United States?

4. How did some states begin paying public school teachers in the 1930's?

5. What moment excited Wilbur Kane to the point of mocking his German neighbors?

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