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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On which of the following days in May of 1935 does the Supreme Court strike down the National Industrial Recovery Act in a 9-0 decision?
(a) Black Monday.
(b) Black Wednesday.
(c) Black Friday.
(d) Black Thursday.

2. 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?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Monroe.
(d) Grant.

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

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

5. Which of the following individuals considers himself the founder of the Federal Reserve Board and strongly disagrees with the February 1935 banking bill?
(a) Marriner Eccles.
(b) Lauchlin Currie.
(c) James P. Warburg.
(d) Carter Glass.

Short Answer Questions

1. As "Over the Top" concludes, Leuchtenburg reports that by the spring of 1934 there were twice as many men working as the year before in which city?

2. Which of the following individuals laments in "Stalemate" that Thomas Jefferson would not have spoken to the Democrats?

3. After the 1936 farm law proves unworkable, Wallace resists attempts to deregulate production in the hopes of being like which of the following Old Testament characters?

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

5. 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?

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