50 tests on a topic “The literature of Great Depression: John Steinbeck, E. Caldwell

The divorce rate increased.

Middle-class and working-class families suffered traumatic impact.

16. 
    Popular culture during the Depression era—as manifested by radio, movies, and literature—was generally characterized by
    

1. 
   a celebration of affluence
   
2. 
   appeals to prurient interests in sex and crime.
   
3. 
   a return to traditional religious values.
   
4. 
   upbeat and romantic messages as a sort of escapism.
   

17. 
    Four of the following novels manifest an implicit protest against social injustices in then-contemporary American society. Which is the exception?
    

1. 
   Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road (1932)
   
2. 
   Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (1936)
   
3. 
   John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
   
4. 
   Richard Wright's Native Son (1940)
   

18. 
    Movie attendance during the Depression
    

1. 
   rose throughout the decade.
   
2. 
   fell throughout the decade.
   
3. 
   rose initially but then fell as the Depression worsened.
   
4. 
   fell initially but then rose as the Depression worsened.
   

19. 
    The Popular Front
    

1. 
   was a radio show about detectives in New York City.
   
2. 
   was a broad coalition of "antifascist" groups on the political Left.
   
3. 
   was one of the most successful programs of the New Deal.
   
4. 
   was a name given to the Nazi Party by the State Department.
   

20. 
    The Abraham Lincoln brigade was most closely associated with
    

1. 
   Coxey's Army.
   
2. 
   the Bonus Army.
   
3.