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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fascist Challenge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenancy Act is approved, it creates the Farm Security Administration to provide loans to farmers. In what year does this measure pass?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1934.

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

3. 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) 0.
(b) 975.
(c) 225.
(d) 120,000.

4. On Memorial Day in 1937, in which of the following cities do police kill ten strikers at a steel plant?
(a) Des Moines.
(b) Denver.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Houston.

5. In "One Third of a Nation" Congress approves the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. In which year does this act pass?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. After the Soviet invasion of Finland in November 1939, Roosevelt is disgusted and lends the Fins how much money?

3. As "The Politics of Hard Times" opens, how many years does Leuchtenburg say Hoover has been President?

4. The National Housing Act of 1934 created a new agency, the Federal Housing Administration. Under which of the following individuals is the FHA run?

5. After the International Economic Conference in London in 1933, Roosevelt notes that which major economist had been "magnificently right"?

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