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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Roosevelt Reconstruction: Retrospect.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following individuals is the governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and is sent as a delegate to the International Economic Conference in 1933?
(a) George Harrison.
(b) William Borah.
(c) Cordell Hull.
(d) David Reay.

2. In which of the following cities does Roosevelt accept the Democratic nomination for President after the 1932 convention?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) Portland.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Brooklyn.

3. On which of the following dates in 1937 does Roosevelt send Congress his design to reorganize the Supreme Court?
(a) February 5.
(b) January 21.
(c) February 19.
(d) January 7.

4. As "The Second Hundred Days" opens, New Dealers worry that all but which of the following conservative Supreme Court justices might deem the New Deal unconstitutional?
(a) George Sutherland.
(b) James McReynolds.
(c) Louis Brandeis.
(d) Pierce Butler.

5. 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) Maury Maverick.
(d) Harry Byrd.

Short Answer Questions

1. In response to Roosevelt's 1937 attempt to reorganize the Supreme Court, which of the following justices retires?

2. When Germany makes its move in 1940, how long does it take for the Nazis to drive British troops out of France?

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

4. During the labor riots in Minneapolis in 1934, city truck drivers are lead by Vincent Raymond Dunne. By what age had that person first become a teamster?

5. As "Over the Top" concludes, Leuchtenburg reports that by the spring of 1934 there were twice as many men working as the year before in which city?

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