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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When asked why he kept a family going on credit, a Philadelphia storekeeper told a reporter that there were how many children in the family's house with no shoes?
(a) 8.
(b) 15.
(c) 11.
(d) 5.

2. Which of the following individuals--a former Roosevelt supporter--indicates toward the end of "Stalemate" that he doesn't really want anything further to do with the President?
(a) Tom Mooney.
(b) Raymond Clapper.
(c) James Murray.
(d) Frank Merriam.

3. Toward the end of his term, Hoover orders a Senate investigation into the financial crisis. Which of the following men is chosen to lead this investigation?
(a) Ivar Kreuger.
(b) Ferdinand Pecora.
(c) Charles Mitchell.
(d) Albert Wiggin.

4. 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?
(a) William McAdoo.
(b) J. Hamilton Lewis.
(c) Melvin J. Traylor.
(d) John Nance Garner.

5. 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) Albert Wiggin.
(b) Ferdinand Pecora.
(c) Charles Mitchell.
(d) Ivar Kreuger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following individuals had Roosevelt appointed as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board in 1934 who began pushing for a major banking bill in February of 1935?

2. According to "Winter of Despair," on a single day in April 1932 an entire 1/4 of which state went up for auction?

3. Which of the following individuals is the US ambassador to Germany in "A Farewell to Arms" and says that Hitler is such a horror that he cannot endure the man's presence?

4. According to "The Hundred Days' War," how long does it take after Roosevelt's inauguration for the country to shift from apathy to expectation?

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

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