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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act is approved, it also creates the National Youth Administration. By which of the following individuals is the NYA program run?
(a) James Moffett.
(b) Frances Perkins.
(c) Aubrey Williams.
(d) George Biddle.

2. Approximately how many schools were either built or improved by the Works Progress Administration in "One Third of a Nation"?
(a) 5,900.
(b) 13,000.
(c) 2,750.
(d) 950.

3. "Winter of Despair" mentions all but which of the following individuals as progressives who oppose deficit spending?
(a) Robert Wagner.
(b) Bernard Baruch.
(c) Robert La Follette.
(d) Fiorello La Guardia.

4. How many people tuned in to their radios on March 12, 1933, to hear the first of Roosevelt's famous Fireside Chats?
(a) 60 million.
(b) 20 thousand.
(c) 5 million.
(d) 100 thousand.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following politicians is from Nebraska and leads the fight for the Tennessee Valley Authority in the first few months of 1933?

2. Leuchtenburg describes an incident where about 50 people fight over a barrel of garbage left at the back door of a restaurant. In which city does this take place?

3. When asked why he kept a family going on credit, a Philadelphia storekeeper told a reporter that there were how many children in the family's house with no shoes?

4. 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?

5. The quote from Harold Clurman at the beginning of "Winter of Despair" states that people could smell what in the air during the winter of 1932-33?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Roosevelt was finally able to collect enough delegates to make him the Democratic nominee for President in 1932.

2. Discuss and explain the disparity between supply and demand in 1932.

3. Discuss the ways in which the Social Security Act of 1935 represented a new way of thinking in American history, as detailed in "One Third of a Nation."

4. Explain the political game Hoover tried to get Roosevelt to play in November and December of 1932 in regard to the Anglo-French war debt.

5. What can be considered ironic about the state of mind of jobless workers in 1934, as discussed in the opening of "One Third of a Nation"?

6. Describe the relationship between Roosevelt and Reverend Coughlin and how it changes from 1932-1934.

7. Why did Secretary Wallace order the destruction of the cotton crop in 1933, and how were farmers compensated for their losses?

8. What was the labor problem anticipated during the 1930s, as discussed in "Winter of Despair"?

9. During the 1932 election, how badly did Herbert Hoover lose to Roosevelt?

10. Describe the attitudes of Wall Street businessmen in the early 1930s, as discussed in "Winter of Despair."

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