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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The New Deal at High Tide.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In January of 1934 the first of a few challengers for Roosevelt springs up. What is the name of the challenger who proposes the Old Age Revolving Pensions plan?
(a) Frank Walsh.
(b) Francis Townsend.
(c) Homer Martin.
(d) Milo Reno.
2. In January 1936, Al Smith charges at a Liberty League banquet in Washington that the Roosevelt administration is disguising itself as all but which of the following?
(a) Jefferson.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Marx.
3. Just prior to the passage of the Rural Electrification Administration in May of 1935, for every 10 American farms how many are without electricity?
(a) 9.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 10.
4. 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?
(a) New York.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Des Moines.
(d) St. Louis.
5. Which of the following pieces of legislation did Roosevelt not insist Congress pass before they adjourned in June of 1935?
(a) Banking bill.
(b) Housing bill.
(c) Social Security.
(d) Wagner bill.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following new taxes does Roosevelt not propose to Congress in June of 1935?
2. Toward the end of "The New Deal at High Tide" Leuchtenburg mentions that seven years into the Depression how many Americans are still unemployed?
3. In "Winter of Despair" a group of fifty-five men is charged with dismantling and carrying away a whole four-story building in which of the following cities?
4. 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?
5. 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?
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