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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenancy Act is approved, it creates the Farm Security Administration to provide loans to farmers. In what year does this measure pass?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1936.

2. In the run up to the 1934 Congressional elections, John Garner guesses that Republicans will win how many seats in the House of Representatives?
(a) 103.
(b) 74.
(c) 12.
(d) 37.

3. Toward the end of "The Second Hundred Days" Roosevelt is forced to fire the head of the Tennessee Valley Authority. What was his name?
(a) Lloyd George.
(b) George Fort Milton.
(c) Anne O'Hare McCormick.
(d) Arthur Morgan.

4. According to "A Sea of Troubles," how many residents of Cleveland go without food or clothing relief during the first six days of 1938?
(a) 9,700.
(b) 120,000.
(c) 65,000.
(d) 2,500.

5. In "One Third of a Nation" Leuchtenburg discusses the poor migrants who headed west and became the basis for a famous novel by which author?
(a) Jerome Frank.
(b) Chester Davis.
(c) John Steinbeck.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the International Economic Conference in London in 1933, Roosevelt notes that which major economist had been "magnificently right"?

2. When discussing Roosevelt's disability, Leuchtenburg mentions that the President has been unable to walk unassisted since which year?

3. Which of the following new taxes does Roosevelt not propose to Congress in June of 1935?

4. The 1935 Banking Act aims to bring all large state banks under the jurisdiction of the Federal Reserve Board by requiring them to join the Federal Reserve System by what year?

5. As "One Third of a Nation" closes, Harry Hopkins writes that even if prosperity returns to America at least how many will still be unemployed?

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