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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 Secretary Wallace sends out a questionnaire to cotton farmers asking their opinion of compulsory crop reduction, he finds that what percentage favor the plan?
(a) 15%.
(b) 38%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 100%.

2. Which of the following individuals laments in "Stalemate" that Thomas Jefferson would not have spoken to the Democrats?
(a) Josiah Bailey.
(b) Harry Byrd.
(c) Carter Glass.
(d) Maury Maverick.

3. 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) 1936.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1937.

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

5. In which of the following cities does Roosevelt accuse Hoover of being "the greatest spending Administration in peace times in all our history" during the 1932 Presidential campaign?
(a) Pittsburgh.
(b) Sioux City.
(c) Topeka.
(d) New Orleans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following individuals is the most dominant figure in the Temporary National Economic Committee created in "Stalemate"?

2. When, in early 1935, Roosevelt urges Congress to approve entry into the World Court, he does not count on the outcry raised by all but which of the following?

3. "Winter of Despair" mentions all but which of the following individuals as progressives who oppose deficit spending?

4. How many deutsche marks are Jews in Germany fined by the Nazis after a young Polish Jew murders the third secretary of the German Embassy in Paris in November of 1938.

5. When discussing the Fair Labor Standards Act, Leuchtenburg states that in New England shoe factory workers average only how much pay per year?

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