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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. 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) St. Louis.
(b) Portland.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Brooklyn.

2. Which of the following individuals commits suicide in March of 1932 and is proved a swindler of $100,000,000 in bonds a month after his death?
(a) Ivar Kreuger.
(b) Albert Wiggin.
(c) Charles Mitchell.
(d) Ferdinand Pecora.

3. "The Politics of Hard Times" reports that as the party in power, which political party faced almost certain defeat in the 1932 election?
(a) Democrat.
(b) Republican.
(c) Libertarian.
(d) Progressive.

4. By which of the following months in 1934 has Roosevelt grown tired of the new head of the Recovery Administration and secured that person's resignation?
(a) July.
(b) September.
(c) February.
(d) April.

5. According to "Winter of Despair," on a single day in April 1932 an entire 1/4 of which state went up for auction?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Colorado.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the political organization Huey Long founds in January of 1934?

2. How many people tuned in to their radios on March 12, 1933, to hear the first of Roosevelt's famous Fireside Chats?

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

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?

5. After the 1932 election, Roosevelt's Brain Trust argues that the market theories of which major economist have vanished forever?

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