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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fascist Challenge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As "The Second Hundred Days" opens, New Dealers worry that all but which of the following conservative Supreme Court justices might deem the New Deal unconstitutional?
(a) Louis Brandeis.
(b) George Sutherland.
(c) Pierce Butler.
(d) James McReynolds.

2. In May of 1933, Roosevelt announces his choice to head the new Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Which of the following individuals does Roosevelt pick?
(a) Joseph E. Davis.
(b) Harry Hopkins.
(c) Peggy Bacon.
(d) Robert Sherwood.

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

4. During the summer of 1933 farmers uproot their cotton crop to prevent over-saturation of the market. How much do farmers collect for plowing up 10 million acres of cotton?
(a) $50 thousand.
(b) $100 million.
(c) $25 million.
(d) $500 thousand.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After founding his political organization, in which of the following states does Huey Long successfully rally a crowd of farmers in the spring of 1935?

2. Which of the following individuals is chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities when it is created in 1938?

3. When Roosevelt forms the Public Works Administration he appoints the Secretary of the Interior to run it. What was his name?

4. The National Industrial Recovery Act, which Roosevelt signs on June 16, 1933, provides how much in funding for public works?

5. Which of the following groups breaks with Roosevelt at its convention in May 1935 and renounces the New Deal?

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