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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. When the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act is approved, it also creates the National Youth Administration. By which of the following individuals is the NYA program run?
(a) Aubrey Williams.
(b) Frances Perkins.
(c) George Biddle.
(d) James Moffett.

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

3. During the labor riots in Minneapolis in 1934, city truck drivers are lead by Vincent Raymond Dunne. By what age had that person first become a teamster?
(a) 32.
(b) 14.
(c) 25.
(d) 11.

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

5. As Roosevelt's inauguration approaches, he increasingly favors the ideas of which major economist?
(a) John Stuart Mill.
(b) Alfred Marshall.
(c) Adam Smith.
(d) John Maynard Keynes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following pieces of legislation did Roosevelt not insist Congress pass before they adjourned in June of 1935?

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

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

4. Which of the following politicians is from Massachusetts and laments that the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority is a "Soviet dream" in 1933?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the labor problem anticipated during the 1930s, as discussed in "Winter of Despair"?

2. Discuss the conflict between "wets" and "drys" during the 1932 campaign and the effect on the Democratic platform.

3. In "The Politics of Hard Times," why was the Republican party sure to lose the 1932 election?

4. Describe the attitudes of Wall Street businessmen in the early 1930s, as discussed in "Winter of Despair."

5. What can be considered ironic about the state of mind of jobless workers in 1934, as discussed in the opening of "One Third of a Nation"?

6. In "The Second Hundred Days," why are the New Dealers worried about the Supreme Court?

7. During the 1932 election, how badly did Herbert Hoover lose to Roosevelt?

8. Explain the Old Age Revolving Pensions proposal put forth by Doctor Townsend, as discussed in "Waiting for Lefty."

9. What was the purpose of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), created in May of 1935, and what did this program accomplish?

10. Explain how Roosevelt was finally able to collect enough delegates to make him the Democratic nominee for President in 1932.

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