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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Ballinger Pinchot.
(b) Lewis Mumford.
(c) Jesse Jones.
(d) Harold Ickes.

2. According to "Winter of Despair," which of the following individuals works for The New York Times and first coins the phrase "brain trust" in reference to Roosevelt's advisers?
(a) Samuel Rosenman.
(b) Basil O'Connor.
(c) Raymond Moley.
(d) James Kieran.

3. In "The Hundred Days' War" Ferdinand Pecora's Senate investigation into Wall Street reveals that twenty partners of House of Morgan have not paid income tax in how long?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 6 years.
(c) 32 months.
(d) 2 years.

4. In September of 1935, which of Roosevelt's political critics is shot and killed by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss?
(a) Rev. Coughlin.
(b) Huey Long.
(c) Dean Acheson.
(d) Doctor Townsend.

5. Which of the following individuals is a reporter who remarks that Roosevelt seems far more serene than European leaders in the beginning of "The New Deal at High Tide"?
(a) Edwin Markham.
(b) Roy Howard.
(c) William Phillips.
(d) Anne O'Hare McCormick.

Short Answer 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?

2. When discussing the plight of homeless and jobless Americans in 1932, Leuchtenburg mentions that two hundred men would huddle over fires in which of the following states?

3. On Memorial Day in 1937, in which of the following cities do police kill ten strikers at a steel plant?

4. Which of the following railroads does "The Politics of Hard Times" mention as a common ride for homeless Americans in search of work?

5. After the International Economic Conference in London in 1933, Roosevelt notes that which major economist had been "magnificently right"?

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