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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the "service department" of Detroit?
(a) The strike organizers.
(b) Hired thugs working for management.
(c) The series of vendors who provided food for strikers.
(d) The government officers who were on the company payroll.

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

3. What did the Wagner Act outlaw?
(a) Employer firings of unionizing workers.
(b) Union organizers on private property.
(c) Violent removal of striking workers.
(d) Government money going to unions.

4. What dubious art did Jerome Zerbe develop in the 1930's?
(a) Hardcore pornography.
(b) Celebrity photography.
(c) Bootlegging.
(d) Muzak.

5. What was the occupational community of which Jimmy Partland was a part, that lent back and forth regularly?
(a) Auto workers.
(b) Corn growers.
(c) Writers.
(d) Jazz musicians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Terkel's parents do for a living before the Depression?

2. What is Cesar Chavez best known as?

3. Why was the Michigan governor Frank Murphy branded weak-willed regarding the sit-in strike?

4. What did an industrialist ask Gordon Baxter to destroy for him?

5. Who was the one black student in Terkel's college class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the purpose of the Bonus March?

2. Why is Jerome Zerbe's interview oddly disturbing?

3. Who is Bob La Follette?

4. How did blues and alcohol play a defining role in Terkel's college years?

5. How did the jazz community take care of its own in the Depression?

6. How was Robin Langston's family affected by the Depression?

7. What does Peggy Terry have to say about race and the Depression?

8. What does Slim Collier's discussion of her father say about the effect unemployment has on men?

9. What connection is made between fear and the Depression in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?

10. Why was psychoanalysis largely ineffective in the Depression?

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