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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. As "One Third of a Nation" closes, Harry Hopkins writes that even if prosperity returns to America at least how many will still be unemployed?
(a) 600 thousand.
(b) 5 million.
(c) 12 million.
(d) 200 thousand.

2. After founding his political organization, in which of the following states does Huey Long successfully rally a crowd of farmers in the spring of 1935?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Louisiana.

3. Pecora's investigation into the House of Morgan partners in May of 1933--and the subsequent income tax revelations--leads Congress to pass which of the following bills?
(a) Economy Act.
(b) Gold Reserve Act.
(c) Wagner Act.
(d) Glass-Steagall Act.

4. 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) George Biddle.
(b) Frances Perkins.
(c) James Moffett.
(d) Aubrey Williams.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the 1932 Presidential primary race, which of the following candidates can not appear at the Democratic convention because of a run on his Chicago bank?

2. "The Politics of Hard Times" reports that as the party in power, which political party faced almost certain defeat in the 1932 election?

3. In May of 1933, Roosevelt announces his choice to head the new Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Which of the following individuals does Roosevelt pick?

4. Which of the following candidates has the powerful support of publisher William Randolph Hearst during the 1932 Presidential primary race?

5. 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?

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