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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Secretary Wallace sends out a questionnaire to cotton farmers asking their opinion of compulsory crop reduction, he finds that what percentage favor the plan?
(a) 100%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 38%.

2. 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?
(a) Lewis Mumford.
(b) Jesse Jones.
(c) Ballinger Pinchot.
(d) Harold Ickes.

3. As "The Second Hundred Days" opens, New Dealers worry that all but which of the following conservative Supreme Court justices might deem the New Deal unconstitutional?
(a) James McReynolds.
(b) Pierce Butler.
(c) Louis Brandeis.
(d) George Sutherland.

4. In the election of 1938, how many seats do Republicans pick up in the House of Representatives?
(a) 16.
(b) 81.
(c) 72.
(d) 49.

5. Which of the following new taxes does Roosevelt not propose to Congress in June of 1935?
(a) Inheritance.
(b) Sales.
(c) Gifts.
(d) Corporations.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Just prior to the passage of the Rural Electrification Administration in May of 1935, for every 10 American farms how many are without electricity?

3. After the ordered destruction of the 1933 cotton crop, Americans are horrified when 6 million of which baby animal are next ordered to slaughter?

4. After the 1938 elections, Roosevelt points out that despite Republican gains in Congress he is still the first two-term President to retain control of Congress since which of the following?

5. 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?

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