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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the election of 1938, how many seats do Republicans pick up in the House of Representatives?
(a) 49.
(b) 81.
(c) 16.
(d) 72.

2. 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?
(a) George Sutherland.
(b) James McReynolds.
(c) Louis Brandeis.
(d) Pierce Butler.

3. Between September and December of 1937, how many people are laid off when the economy suddenly cracks?
(a) 800 thousand.
(b) 7 million.
(c) 250 thousand.
(d) 2 million.

4. Which of the following individuals--a former Roosevelt supporter--indicates toward the end of "Stalemate" that he doesn't really want anything further to do with the President?
(a) James Murray.
(b) Tom Mooney.
(c) Frank Merriam.
(d) Raymond Clapper.

5. In June of 1934 President Roosevelt asks the Committee on Economic Security to develop a social security program. By which of the following individuals is the effort led?
(a) Frances Perkins.
(b) Aubrey Williams.
(c) James Moffett.
(d) George Biddle.

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. When Japan begins to cause problems in 1939, the US responds by lending how much money to China?

3. In which of the following cities does Roosevelt accept the Democratic nomination for President after the 1932 convention?

4. On December 12, 1937, Japanese war planes bomb which of the following US naval vessels anchored in the Yangtse harbor?

5. In 1938, which of the following individuals wages a white-supremacy campaign in his home state of South Carolina to the disgust of Roosevelt and the New Dealers?

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