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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In his 1937 bid to reorganize the Supreme Court, at what age does Roosevelt say justices should retire?
(a) 50.
(b) 70.
(c) 60.
(d) 80.

2. In January 1936, Al Smith charges at a Liberty League banquet in Washington that the Roosevelt administration is disguising itself as all but which of the following?
(a) Marx.
(b) Jefferson.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Thomas.

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

4. In April 1939, Roosevelt makes one last attempt to avert war by asking Hitler and Mussolini to agree not to attack how many nations, listed by name?
(a) 31.
(b) 49.
(c) 16.
(d) 8.

5. In 1938, Phil La Follette launches a new national political party while speaking at the University of Washington. What is the name of the new party?
(a) Progressive Nationalists of America.
(b) Progressive Party.
(c) National Progressives of America.
(d) Nationalist Party.

6. When discussing Roosevelt's personality Leuchtenburg mentions that every part of Roosevelt's life seems to have a public quality, including his dog of what name?
(a) Fala.
(b) Ross.
(c) Moley.
(d) Tugwell.

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

8. Which of the following individuals laments in "Stalemate" that Thomas Jefferson would not have spoken to the Democrats?
(a) Carter Glass.
(b) Harry Byrd.
(c) Maury Maverick.
(d) Josiah Bailey.

9. At the close of "The Roosevelt Reconstruction: Retrospect," which of the following individuals states "we have left Egypt but have not yet arrived at the Promised Land"?
(a) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(b) Donald Richberg.
(c) Elbert Thomas.
(d) Henry Wallace.

10. 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) Harry Hopkins.
(b) John O'Connor.
(c) Aubrey Williams.
(d) Cotton Ed Smith.

11. Which of the following individuals is the most dominant figure in the Temporary National Economic Committee created in "Stalemate"?
(a) Joseph O'Mahoney.
(b) Walton Hamilton.
(c) Hugo Black.
(d) Thurman Arnold.

12. When Japan begins to cause problems in 1939, the US responds by lending how much money to China?
(a) $2.5 billion.
(b) $102 thousand.
(c) $7 million.
(d) $25 million.

13. Which of the following individuals is a reporter who remarks that Roosevelt seems far more serene than European leaders in the beginning of "The New Deal at High Tide"?
(a) Edwin Markham.
(b) William Phillips.
(c) Roy Howard.
(d) Anne O'Hare McCormick.

14. Which of the following individuals proposes the non-recognition solution to Manchuria in January 1932?
(a) George Messersmith.
(b) Frederick L. Schuman.
(c) William Dodd.
(d) Henry Stimson.

15. 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.
(a) 6 thousand.
(b) 500 thousand.
(c) 1 billion.
(d) 4 billion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following individuals is Roosevelt's Secretary of State who tries to lower trade barriers in "A Farewell to Arms"?

2. 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?

3. In May 1940, General Marshall wants a force of at least how many soldiers?

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

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

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