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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. When Secretary Wallace sends out a questionnaire to cotton farmers asking their opinion of compulsory crop reduction, he finds that what percentage favor the plan?
(a) 100%.
(b) 38%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 15%.

2. By the end of 1934, how much money has the government spent on relief for the unemployed?
(a) $2 billion.
(b) $7 million.
(c) $62 million.
(d) $1.5 trillion.

3. According to the end of "The Politics of Hard Times," what is the final Electoral College tally by which Roosevelt defeats Hoover?
(a) 472-59.
(b) 282-249.
(c) 519-12.
(d) 354-177.

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?
(a) Frances Perkins.
(b) James Moffett.
(c) George Biddle.
(d) Aubrey Williams.

5. As "A Sea of Troubles" opens, on which of the following dates in 1937 does Roosevelt deliver his second Inaugural Address?
(a) January 21.
(b) February 5.
(c) January 7.
(d) February 19.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The loss of which pilot at sea causes the "New Republic" publication to ask that the government prevent citizens from engaging in this sort of useless exploit?

3. Which of the following individuals says in 1938 that "it is always best and safest to count on nothing from the Americans but words in reference to European conflict?

4. 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?

5. How many deutsche marks are Jews in Germany fined by the Nazis after a young Polish Jew murders the third secretary of the German Embassy in Paris in November of 1938.

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