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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. After the 1932 election, Roosevelt's Brain Trust argues that the market theories of which major economist have vanished forever?
(a) John Stuart Mill.
(b) Alfred Marshall.
(c) John Maynard Keynes.
(d) Adam Smith.

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

3. 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) Des Moines.
(b) New York.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) Detroit.

4. During the labor riots in Minneapolis in 1934, city truck drivers are lead by Vincent Raymond Dunne. By what age had that person first become a teamster?
(a) 32.
(b) 14.
(c) 25.
(d) 11.

5. 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) Thomas.
(b) Jefferson.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Marx.

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing Senator Huey Long of Louisiana, Leuchtenburg mentions that Long loves his nickname of what?

2. What is the name of the political organization Huey Long founds in January of 1934?

3. Toward the end of "The New Deal at High Tide" Leuchtenburg mentions that seven years into the Depression how many Americans are still unemployed?

4. 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?

5. Which of the following pieces of legislation did Roosevelt not insist Congress pass before they adjourned in June of 1935?

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