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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fascist Challenge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The quote from Harold Clurman at the beginning of "Winter of Despair" states that people could smell what in the air during the winter of 1932-33?
(a) Sulfur.
(b) Starvation.
(c) Depression.
(d) Hope.

2. In the spring of 1934, after the demise of the Civil Works Administration, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration helped how many students attend college?
(a) 6,750.
(b) 950.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 100,000.

3. After the 1936 farm law proves unworkable, Wallace resists attempts to deregulate production in the hopes of being like which of the following Old Testament characters?
(a) Joseph.
(b) Luke.
(c) Mark.
(d) John.

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

5. Toward the end of "The New Deal at High Tide" Leuchtenburg mentions that seven years into the Depression how many Americans are still unemployed?
(a) 8 million.
(b) 975 thousand.
(c) 100 thousand.
(d) 2 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the run up to the 1934 Congressional elections, John Garner guesses that Republicans will win how many seats in the House of Representatives?

2. Which of the following individuals is the leader of the New Deal faction in the House of Representatives in 1937?

3. Which of the following individuals is Roosevelt's Secretary of State who tries to lower trade barriers in "A Farewell to Arms"?

4. "The New Deal at High Tide" mentions that during the Dust Bowl the temperature in Vinita, Oklahoma, was over one hundred degrees for how many days straight?

5. In May 1934 the US signs a treaty that abolishes the Platt Amendment with which of the following countries?

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