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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The National Housing Act of 1934 created a new agency, the Federal Housing Administration. Under which of the following individuals is the FHA run?
(a) Aubrey Williams.
(b) Frances Perkins.
(c) James Moffett.
(d) George Biddle.

2. When Roosevelt forms the Public Works Administration he appoints the Secretary of the Interior to run it. What was his name?
(a) Lewis Mumford.
(b) Harold Ickes.
(c) Ballinger Pinchot.
(d) Jesse Jones.

3. According to "Winter of Despair," U.S. Steel employed 225,000 full-time workers in 1929. How many employees are full time by April of 1933?
(a) 120,000.
(b) 975.
(c) 0.
(d) 225.

4. After the 1932 election, Roosevelt's Brain Trust argues that the market theories of which major economist have vanished forever?
(a) Alfred Marshall.
(b) John Stuart Mill.
(c) Adam Smith.
(d) John Maynard Keynes.

5. In "The Politics of Hard Times," which of the following individuals says that Roosevelt is "a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President"?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Elmer Davis.
(c) William Randolph Hearst.
(d) Walter Lippman.

6. Which of the following politicians is from Nebraska and leads the fight for the Tennessee Valley Authority in the first few months of 1933?
(a) James Warburg.
(b) George Norris.
(c) Hugo Black.
(d) Joe Martin.

7. According to "Winter of Despair," which of the following words appears most frequently in the writings of New Deal theorists?
(a) Balance.
(b) Power.
(c) Welfare.
(d) Labor.

8. Approximately how many schools were either built or improved by the Works Progress Administration in "One Third of a Nation"?
(a) 13,000.
(b) 5,900.
(c) 950.
(d) 2,750.

9. "The Politics of Hard Times" reports that as the party in power, which political party faced almost certain defeat in the 1932 election?
(a) Progressive.
(b) Libertarian.
(c) Democrat.
(d) Republican.

10. Justice Louis Brandeis tells Roosevelt in 1935 that he must return to regulated competition, the "little unit." To which other president had Brandeis given this advice?
(a) Warren G. Harding.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Calvin Coolidge.

11. In the summer of 1932, farmers riot in all but which of the following states?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Wisconsin.

12. In which of the following cities does Roosevelt accept the Democratic nomination for President after the 1932 convention?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Portland.

13. As "The Politics of Hard Times" opens, how many years does Leuchtenburg say Hoover has been President?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

14. In Roosevelt's speech at the beginning of "The Hundred Days' War" he states that the nation is not stricken by any plague of which of the following pests?
(a) Gophers.
(b) Cockroaches.
(c) Rats.
(d) Locusts.

15. 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) George Sutherland.
(b) James McReynolds.
(c) Pierce Butler.
(d) Louis Brandeis.

Short Answer Questions

1. As "Over the Top" concludes, Leuchtenburg reports that by the spring of 1934 there were twice as many men working as the year before in which city?

2. When asked why he kept a family going on credit, a Philadelphia storekeeper told a reporter that there were how many children in the family's house with no shoes?

3. Just prior to the passage of the Rural Electrification Administration in May of 1935, for every 10 American farms how many are without electricity?

4. Upon receiving his appointment from Roosevelt, the new head of the Recovery Administration memorably remarks that it will be "red fire at first" and dead what afterward?

5. In 1934, Secretary Wallace is extremely relieved when he is able to slacken crop restriction due to which of the following natural disasters?

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