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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Over the Top.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to "Winter of Despair," U.S. Steel employed 225,000 full-time workers in 1929. How many employees are full time by April of 1933?
(a) 975.
(b) 0.
(c) 120,000.
(d) 225.

2. Which of the following individuals switches California's votes to Roosevelt during the 1932 Democratic convention, thus making Roosevelt the Democratic candidate?
(a) J. Hamilton Lewis.
(b) Melvin J. Traylor.
(c) William McAdoo.
(d) John Nance Garner.

3. In "The Politics of Hard Times," which of the following individuals says that Roosevelt is "a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President"?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) William Randolph Hearst.
(c) Elmer Davis.
(d) Walter Lippman.

4. "Iron Age" reports during the summer of 1932 that steel plants are operating at what percent of their capacity?
(a) 74.
(b) 52.
(c) 12.
(d) 98.

5. When discussing the plight of homeless and jobless Americans in 1932, Leuchtenburg mentions that two hundred men would huddle over fires in which of the following states?
(a) Oregon.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) New York.
(d) Tennessee.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the summer of 1933 farmers uproot their cotton crop to prevent over-saturation of the market. How much do farmers collect for plowing up 10 million acres of cotton?

2. Which of the following business executives laments in October of 1930 that the real blame for the financial crisis lay with the irresponsible--and now unemployed--populace?

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. 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. On Roosevelt's very first night in office, he directs his Secretary of the Treasury to draft an emergency banking bill. Who is the Secretary of Treasury?

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