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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. "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) 22.
(b) 31.
(c) 12.
(d) 35.

2. In June of 1940 Roosevelt surprises the nation by naming which of the following individuals as Secretary of War?
(a) John Gleason.
(b) Robert Morss Lovett.
(c) Henry Stimson.
(d) Frank Knox.

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

4. In his review of Roosevelt's Presidency, Leuchtenburg mentions that which of the following executive orders went almost completely unnoticed but allowed the presidency to modernize?
(a) 3124.
(b) 5345.
(c) 7649.
(d) 8248.

5. 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) Morris Cooke.
(c) Stuart Chase.
(d) Hugh Hammond Bennett.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. In September of 1935, which of Roosevelt's political critics is shot and killed by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss?

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?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare Roosevelt's attitude toward further spending with that of Congress in late 1937, as discussed in "Stalemate."

2. What is the soil problem discussed in "The New Deal at High Tide" and how is it resolved?

3. In the early part of 1938, why did Roosevelt seem to prefer allowing the economic gurus to argue around him rather than making any solid decisions about economic policy?

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

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

6. In "The Roosevelt Reconstruction: Retrospect" how does Leuchtenburg say Roosevelt changed the way the President dealt with the press?

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

8. Explain the result of Roosevelt's 1937 attempt to reorganize the Supreme Court.

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

10. Explain the creation of and the focus of the House Committee on Un-American Activities when it was created in 1938.

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