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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Maxim Litvinov, the Soviet representative, arrives in the US in 1933 he is given a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. All but which of the following executive groups attend?
(a) Pennsylvania Railroad.
(b) Liberty League.
(c) House of Morgan.
(d) Chase National Bank.

2. 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?
(a) Maury Maverick.
(b) Woodrow Wilson.
(c) Charles Beard.
(d) Neville Chamberlain.

3. As "The Fascist Challenge" opens, Leuchtenburg mentions that which of the following individuals is the civil liberty suppressing mayor of Jersey City?
(a) Frank Hague.
(b) Felix Frankfurter.
(c) Jackson Day.
(d) William Douglas.

4. 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) Raymond Clapper.
(b) Tom Mooney.
(c) James Murray.
(d) Frank Merriam.

5. Which of the following individuals is the Assistant Attorney General who blames monopolists for the recession in December 1937?
(a) Arthur Salter.
(b) Myron Taylor.
(c) Leon Henderson.
(d) Robert Jackson.

6. At the 1940 Democratic Convention, having decided to run for reelection, Roosevelt is nominated on the first ballot with how many votes?
(a) 61.
(b) 387.
(c) 946.
(d) 742.

7. In 1936 Roosevelt speaks at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia. As he makes his way onto the stage, he falls while trying to shake the hand of which individual?
(a) Roy Howard.
(b) William Phillips.
(c) Edwin Markham.
(d) Anne O'Hare McCormick.

8. Twice a week, during Roosevelt's press conferences, how many reporters were typically let in to question him?
(a) 32.
(b) 200.
(c) 125.
(d) 60.

9. In response to Roosevelt's 1937 attempt to reorganize the Supreme Court, which of the following justices retires?
(a) Van Devanter.
(b) McReynolds.
(c) Hughes.
(d) Roberts.

10. Which of the following individuals is chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities when it is created in 1938?
(a) Frank Murpy.
(b) Noah Mason.
(c) James A. Farley.
(d) Martin Dies.

11. When discussing Roosevelt's personality, which of the following individuals is the Under Secretary of State and says the President seems to have multiple personalities?
(a) Roy Howard.
(b) Anne O'Hare McCormick.
(c) Edwin Markham.
(d) William Phillips.

12. In 1938, which of the following individuals wages a white-supremacy campaign in his home state of South Carolina to the disgust of Roosevelt and the New Dealers?
(a) Aubrey Williams.
(b) John O'Connor.
(c) Cotton Ed Smith.
(d) Harry Hopkins.

13. When, in early 1935, Roosevelt urges Congress to approve entry into the World Court, he does not count on the outcry raised by all but which of the following?
(a) Huey Long.
(b) Will Rogers.
(c) Father Coughlin.
(d) William Randolph Hearst.

14. Which of the following individuals is called the "father of soil conservation" and is appointed to head the Soil Erosion Service in October of 1933?
(a) Alistair Cooke.
(b) Hugh Hammond Bennett.
(c) Stuart Chase.
(d) Morris Cooke.

15. After the 1938 elections, Roosevelt points out that despite Republican gains in Congress he is still the first two-term President to retain control of Congress since which of the following?
(a) Grant.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Monroe.
(d) Eisenhower.

Short Answer Questions

1. In June of 1940 Roosevelt surprises the nation by naming which of the following individuals as Secretary of War?

2. On which of the following dates in 1939 do the Nazis sign a pact with the Soviet Union?

3. Which of the following individuals takes care of all White House mail up until Roosevelt's presidency?

4. Which of the following individuals is quoted in "The Roosevelt Reconstruction: Retrospect" as saying the New Deal was a revolutionary response to a revolutionary situation?

5. 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?

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