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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. What position did Franklin Roosevelt hold in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet?
(a) Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
(b) Secretary of War.
(c) Attorney General.
(d) Secretary of State.

2. What did Herbert Hoover study while in school?
(a) Engineering and geology.
(b) Science and medicine.
(c) Law.
(d) Philosophy.

3. How did the Great Depression affect Herbert Hoover's political career?
(a) It destroyed his reputation.
(b) It bolstered his administration.
(c) It divided his administration.
(d) It had a negligible effect on his career.

4. How does Hofstadter characterize American culture in the late nineteenth century?
(a) Rough, individualistic, and obsessed with material gain.
(b) Flourishing after one hundred years of capitalism.
(c) Refined, moral, and concerned with social appearances.
(d) Greedy, immoral, and obsessed with conquest.

5. With which political group did Theodore Roosevelt associate?
(a) The Libertarians.
(b) The Progressives.
(c) The Democrats.
(d) The Republicans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country did Woodrow Wilson support at the onset of World War I?

2. Who were William Jennings Bryan's constituents?

3. What physical changes occurred during the Gilded Age?

4. Who was responsible for organizing the League of Nations after World War I?

5. How did Herbert Hoover first react to the stock market crash of 1929?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Theodore Roosevelt affect American politics after his term in office?

2. Which political party dominated the United States after the Civil War and why?

3. Why did William Jennings Bryan resign as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of War?

4. Describe Herbert Hoover.

5. Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt oppose big business?

6. How did William Jennings Bryan rise to power?

7. What was the "Gilded Age"?

8. Why was Theodore Roosevelt considered a Conservative Progressive?

9. What was the free silver issue?

10. How did Woodrow Wilson rise to power?

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