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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 did the Chicago Worker's Alliance protect against?
(a) Employer intimidation.
(b) Evictions.
(c) Health violations.
(d) Relief fraud.

2. In whose administration was David Kennedy the Secretary of the Treasury?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Kennedy.
(d) Nixon.

3. What was Roosevelt trying to prevent with the Bank Holiday?
(a) A run on failing banks.
(b) The decimation of people's savings.
(c) Buyouts by large conglomerate banks.
(d) The emigration of bank owners.

4. As he entered his later years, what term did Roosevelt use to describe himself among aides?
(a) Ozymandias.
(b) King Frank.
(c) The indispensible man.
(d) The poor public servant.

5. In Three o'Clock in the Morning, Wilbur Kane's mother was bitter about the invasion of what?
(a) Poland.
(b) The Sudetanland
(c) Ethiopia.
(d) Manchuria.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Max Shachtman, what international event ended credibility for Communism in the United States?

2. What did the prison where Scoop Lankford was held in the 1930's try to feed the inmates at the worst times?

3. Corn farmers often switched to what agricultural product in the midst of the Depression?

4. What does Wilbur Kane remember most vividly about Franklin Roosevelt?

5. What was Paul Draper's occupation during the 1930's?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Christopher Lasch explain the possibility of a socialist revolt in the 1930's?

2. How did Wilbur Kane experience the Joe Louis fight against Max Schmeling?

3. How did The Cradle Will Rock become a lightning rod of controversy?

4. How did Jack Kirkland become famous during the Depression?

5. What strange and dangerous episode regarding congressional testimony does C. Wright Patman make?

6. How does Max Shachtman explain the decline of Communism's popularity in America?

7. How much power did coal companies have in the towns they inhabited?

8. What was the most controversial component of the New Deal?

9. What did Hiram Sherman do after The Cradle Will Rock?

10. According to James Farley, how did Roosevelt alienate members of his own administration?

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