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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through One Third of a Nation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Roosevelt forms the Public Works Administration he appoints the Secretary of the Interior to run it. What was his name?
(a) Ballinger Pinchot.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) Jesse Jones.
(d) Harold Ickes.

2. In 1934, Secretary Wallace is extremely relieved when he is able to slacken crop restriction due to which of the following natural disasters?
(a) Drought.
(b) Tornado.
(c) Flood.
(d) Fire.

3. Leuchtenburg describes an incident where about 50 people fight over a barrel of garbage left at the back door of a restaurant. In which city does this take place?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Portland.
(c) Chicago.
(d) St. Louis.

4. 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?
(a) Henry Ford of Ford Motor Company.
(b) William Randolph Hearst of "The New York Journal".
(c) George Washington Hill of American Tobacco.
(d) John Edgerton of the National Association of Manufacturers.

5. In January of 1934 the first of a few challengers for Roosevelt springs up. What is the name of the challenger who proposes the Old Age Revolving Pensions plan?
(a) Milo Reno.
(b) Frank Walsh.
(c) Francis Townsend.
(d) Homer Martin.

Short Answer 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?

2. By the time Roosevelt is inaugurated, how many states have closed their banks?

3. Which of the following politicians is from Massachusetts and laments that the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority is a "Soviet dream" in 1933?

4. 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?

5. When Roosevelt asks Congress for legislation to regulate the Stock Exchange in February of 1934, which of the following men--President of the Stock Exchange--is outraged?

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