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THE QUESTIONS:

The first man takes the employment sheet, scans the page, and stops at the question: 

1 - "WHERE WERE YOU BORN?" The applicant looks off into space: We see the pushcart section of New York's east side. People are milling back and forth, washings swing out over an alley; tier after tier of tenement flats are surveyed by the camera.

We see people sleeping on mattresses on the sidewalk on hot nights.  We see pool rooms and loafing places. A crowd catches our eye, running. Sirens blow. We follow the crowd to see a blazing old-law tenement. Excitement, confusion and the screaming of ambulance sirens. We return to the employment office. The applicant is finishing the sheet. The personnel man says: "Report for work Monday." 

So with the other men in line, each in turn receives a sheet. To each some question causes him to