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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. What memory makes Elsa Ponselle laugh during her interview in Public Servant-The City?
(a) Her family accusing her of being a Bolshevik.
(b) The debates that led to the creation of the teacher's union.
(c) The fear millionaires had during the Depression.
(d) The propaganda posters the government put out.

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

3. What did Hiram Sherman do in The Cradle Will Rock?
(a) He wrote it.
(b) He directed it.
(c) He was a stagehand.
(d) He was an actor.

4. When were the collectivized camps outside of urban centers closed?
(a) When America entered World War II.
(b) The seventies.
(c) When Roosevelt died.
(d) When the stock market crashed.

5. What does Emma Tiller say in her interview is as important as money?
(a) Companionship.
(b) Dignity.
(c) Work.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the principal desire driving black protest in the 1930's according to Horace Cayton?

2. In 1930's Appalachia, what does the KKK assist in setting up?

3. According to historian Christopher Lasch, what was never a serious possibility in the Depression?

4. According to Max Shachtman, why was Communism especially vital just before FDR was elected?

5. What does Alf Landon say he disliked about Roosevelt's New Deal?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Neil Schaffner's theatre troupe have to change their business model after the Crash 1929?

2. What was Edward Burgess's experience of the 1930's?

3. Who was Martin Dies?

4. What strange dichotomy exists in Stanley Kell's interview in Honor and Humiliation?

5. How does Alf Landon recall his 1936 campaign against Roosevelt in the book?

6. According to Horace Cayton, why did black Americans not join the Communists en masse?

7. Describe the incident with the Iowa Judge in The Father Is the Man?

8. How does Max Shachtman explain the decline of Communism's popularity in America?

9. How did Ray Wax's life disillusion him to the idea of strive-and-succeed?

10. What safety concerns pervaded mines in the 1930's?

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