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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Roosevelt's opponent in the presidential race in 1940?
(a) Wendell Wilkie
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower
(c) Herbert Hoover
(d) William Howard Taft

2. At what major company did fights break out over unions?
(a) General Electric
(b) Ford Motor Company
(c) General Motors Company
(d) Westinghouse

3. What information do reports from Europe contain?
(a) The Japanese are planning another attack
(b) Jews are being murdered in concentration camps
(c) The Allies are winning
(d) The Russian atomic bomb is ready for deployment

4. Where did Roosevelt vacation with his family in June of 1940?
(a) Hyde Park
(b) Florida
(c) Georgia
(d) Maine

5. How many Allied troops escaped to England in the "miracle of Dunkirk?"
(a) 300,000
(b) 3,400
(c) 34,000
(d) 340,000

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives at the White House in December of 1941 and stays nearly a month?

2. What was the Arcadia Conference?

3. By the end of 1942, how many Jews were estimated to have been killed by the Germans?

4. What did Roosevelt call the war in Europe in a speech in May of 1941?

5. With whom do the Roosevelts spend Christmas of 1941?

(see the answer key)

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