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

2. In "One Third of a Nation" Leuchtenburg discusses the poor migrants who headed west and became the basis for a famous novel by which author?
(a) John Steinbeck.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Jerome Frank.
(d) Chester Davis.

3. 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) Jesse Jones.
(c) Lewis Mumford.
(d) Harold Ickes.

4. As more and more American workers organize themselves into labor unions in 1933-35, Roosevelt is faced with having to decide what which provision of the National Industrial Recovery Act actually means?
(a) 9 (c).
(b) 4 (b).
(c) 2 (d).
(d) 7 (a).

5. Which of the following politicians is from Massachusetts and laments that the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority is a "Soviet dream" in 1933?
(a) Joe Martin.
(b) George Norris.
(c) James Warburg.
(d) Hugo Black.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During the Blue Eagle parade in New York City, Roosevelt remarks that there is a unity sweeping America that has not been seen since what year?

3. 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?

4. According to "The Politics of Hard Times," about how many people were unemployed by 1932?

5. Approximately how many schools were either built or improved by the Works Progress Administration in "One Third of a Nation"?

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