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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Stalemate.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following individuals notes in the opening of "Stalemate" that the Democratic party is hopelessly divided?
(a) Carter Glass.
(b) Josiah Bailey.
(c) Harry Byrd.
(d) Maury Maverick.

2. The 1935 Banking Act aims to bring all large state banks under the jurisdiction of the Federal Reserve Board by requiring them to join the Federal Reserve System by what year?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1939.

3. Toward the end of "The Second Hundred Days" Roosevelt is forced to fire the head of the Tennessee Valley Authority. What was his name?
(a) Arthur Morgan.
(b) Lloyd George.
(c) George Fort Milton.
(d) Anne O'Hare McCormick.

4. Which of the following pieces of legislation did Roosevelt not insist Congress pass before they adjourned in June of 1935?
(a) Banking bill.
(b) Social Security.
(c) Wagner bill.
(d) Housing bill.

5. Justice Louis Brandeis tells Roosevelt in 1935 that he must return to regulated competition, the "little unit." To which other president had Brandeis given this advice?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Warren G. Harding.
(c) Calvin Coolidge.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following individuals is the most dominant figure in the Temporary National Economic Committee created in "Stalemate"?

2. In 1938, which of the following individuals wages a white-supremacy campaign in his home state of South Carolina to the disgust of Roosevelt and the New Dealers?

3. In his attempt to adapt the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the New Deal, Roosevelt puts a Texas banker in charge. What is that man's name?

4. By which of the following months in 1934 has Roosevelt grown tired of the new head of the Recovery Administration and secured that person's resignation?

5. During the Blue Eagle parade in New York City, Roosevelt remarks that there is a unity sweeping America that has not been seen since what year?

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