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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Wilbur Wright.
(b) Amelia Earhart.
(c) Charles Lindbergh.
(d) Howard Hughes.

2. "An End to Isolation" states that by the end of 1940 America has worked out defense agreements with all but which of the South American nations?
(a) Chile.
(b) Peru.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Brazil.

3. When discussing how to justify Roosevelt's war policy to the American people, General Marshall points out that the US has only how many planes available?
(a) 160.
(b) 102.
(c) 75.
(d) 350.

4. After the Soviet invasion of Finland in November 1939, Roosevelt is disgusted and lends the Fins how much money?
(a) $25 thousand.
(b) $10 million.
(c) $184 million.
(d) $12 thousand.

5. Which of the following individuals is quoted in "The Roosevelt Reconstruction: Retrospect" as saying he has no desire to be a social worker because they have no sense of humor?
(a) Raymond Moley.
(b) Carl Degler.
(c) Walter Pierce.
(d) Ferdinand Lundberg.

6. Which of the following individuals is the leader of the New Deal faction in the House of Representatives in 1937?
(a) Harry Byrd.
(b) Carter Glass.
(c) Josiah Bailey.
(d) Maury Maverick.

7. Which of the following individuals is a publisher who asks Roosevelt for a "breathing spell" at the close of the 1935 Congressional session?
(a) Anne O'Hare McCormick.
(b) Roy Howard.
(c) William Phillips.
(d) Edwin Markham.

8. Which of the following individuals proposes a federal wages and hours law in May 1937?
(a) Thurman Arnold.
(b) Walton Hamilton.
(c) Hugo Black.
(d) Joseph O'Mahoney.

9. When discussing the Fair Labor Standards Act, Leuchtenburg states that in New England shoe factory workers average only how much pay per year?
(a) $1,042.
(b) $678.
(c) $276.
(d) $853.

10. How long does it take for the Senate to approve the Neutrality Act signed on August 31, 1935?
(a) 24 hours.
(b) 3 hours.
(c) 25 minutes.
(d) 6 days.

11. Which of the following authors writes in "The Roosevelt Reconstruction: Retrospect" that "religion is not a substitute for economic planning"?
(a) Horace Gregory.
(b) Rex Tugwell.
(c) D.H. Lawrence.
(d) Edna St. Vincent Millay.

12. 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) Will Rogers.
(b) William Randolph Hearst.
(c) Father Coughlin.
(d) Huey Long.

13. Which of the following individuals states toward the end of "An End to Isolation" that he can't "escape saying that the English are not going to win this war without our help"?
(a) Theodore Carlson.
(b) Walter Johnson.
(c) Secretary Knox.
(d) Secretary Stimson.

14. In response to Roosevelt's April request for a large-scale lend-spend program, in June 1938 Congress votes to approve how much for public works?
(a) $3.75 billion.
(b) $9.4 trillion.
(c) $640 thousand.
(d) $860 thousand.

15. 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) Liberty League.
(b) House of Morgan.
(c) Pennsylvania Railroad.
(d) Chase National Bank.

Short Answer 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?

2. As "The Fascist Challenge" opens, Leuchtenburg mentions that which of the following individuals is the civil liberty suppressing mayor of Jersey City?

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. Shortly after his January 1938 State of the Union Address Roosevelt meets with the head of U.S. Steel. What was his name?

5. Which of the following individuals is the Assistant Attorney General who blames monopolists for the recession in December 1937?

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