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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. On December 12, 1937, Japanese war planes bomb which of the following US naval vessels anchored in the Yangtse harbor?
(a) U.S.S. Kete.
(b) U.S.S. Grayling.
(c) U.S.S. Panay.
(d) U.S.S. Cisco.

2. 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) 742.
(c) 946.
(d) 387.

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

4. 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) Aubrey Williams.
(c) Cotton Ed Smith.
(d) John O'Connor.

5. "The New Deal at High Tide" mentions that during the Dust Bowl the temperature in Vinita, Oklahoma, was over one hundred degrees for how many days straight?
(a) 31.
(b) 22.
(c) 35.
(d) 12.

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

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

4. After the Soviet invasion of Finland in November 1939, Roosevelt is disgusted and lends the Fins how much money?

5. Which of the following individuals laments in "Stalemate" that Thomas Jefferson would not have spoken to the Democrats?

Short Essay Questions

1. In February of 1937, why did Roosevelt set out to reorganize the Supreme Court?

2. What effect does Germany's success in Europe in the spring of 1940 have on Americans?

3. How does Roosevelt respond when the Soviet Union invades Finland?

4. Why, in spite of a sticky mid-term election season, did Roosevelt still consider the 1938 elections a success for his administration?

5. Explain the problems with the Fair Labor Standards Act passed in June 1938.

6. Who opposed Roosevelt in the 1936 election, and how did he hope to win?

7. How does Roosevelt get around the Congressional issues over the lease of destroyers to England in "An End to Isolation"?

8. When Churchhill asks Roosevelt to let England use 50 or 60 US destroyers against the Nazi submarines in July 1940, how does Roosevelt respond?

9. What was Mrs. Roosevelt's opinion of the New Deal, as discussed at the end of "The Roosevelt Reconstruction: Retrospect"?

10. Explain the Neutrality Act signed by Congress in 1935 and what it was intended to accomplish.

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