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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fascist Challenge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to "The Politics of Hard Times," about how many people were unemployed by 1932?
(a) 5 million.
(b) 125 thousand.
(c) 800 thousand.
(d) 13 million.

2. Leuchtenburg states in "The Fascist Challenge" that in September 1938 tension is building in all but which of the following cities?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Bagdad.
(d) Rome.

3. As Roosevelt's inauguration approaches, he increasingly favors the ideas of which major economist?
(a) Alfred Marshall.
(b) John Stuart Mill.
(c) Adam Smith.
(d) John Maynard Keynes.

4. On Memorial Day in 1937, in which of the following cities do police kill ten strikers at a steel plant?
(a) Houston.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Des Moines.
(d) Denver.

5. When asked why he kept a family going on credit, a Philadelphia storekeeper told a reporter that there were how many children in the family's house with no shoes?
(a) 15.
(b) 8.
(c) 11.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the run up to the 1934 Congressional elections, John Garner guesses that Republicans will win how many seats in the House of Representatives?

2. Toward the end of his term, Hoover orders a Senate investigation into the financial crisis. Which of the following men is chosen to lead this investigation?

3. On which of the following dates in 1939 do the Nazis sign a pact with the Soviet Union?

4. Which of the following individuals is the governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and is sent as a delegate to the International Economic Conference in 1933?

5. Which of the following individuals--a former Roosevelt supporter--indicates toward the end of "Stalemate" that he doesn't really want anything further to do with the President?

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