1. The chapter introduction tells the story of federal investigator Lorena Hickok to make the point that:
a. the decade of Depression and New Deal was also the decade of gangsters, environmental abuse, and underground radical movements.
b. while New Deal programs helped many Americans, a closer look revealed inefficiency, corruption and waste.
c. Franklin Roosevelt not only had to lead the nation out of Depression, he also had to cope with entrenched opposition to his reforms within the federal government itself.
d. Depression‑bound Americans found hope in liberal social welfare programs of an activist federal government.
2. Most Depression movies, like much of popular culture, tended to:
a. critique the status quo.
b. provide dark images of horror or tragedy that played to the emotional despair of a suffering nation.
c. uphold the basic social and economic values of America.
d. push the limits of sex and violence in a time of social upheaval and discontent.
3. The dust storms that devastated the Plains resulted from all EXCEPT:
a. logging off the region’s trees.
b. intensive agriculture.
c. overgrazing.
d. drought and record high temperatures.
4. One result of the “Dust Bowl” was that:
a. California became the most populous state in the union.
b. several million people on the plains abandoned their farms and moved west.
c. Mexican Americans and African Americans took advantage of the opportunity to settle abandoned land.
d. big industrial agricultural cooperatives broke up into smaller units.
5. During the Depression, the federal government began to deport:
a. anarchists.
b. Japanese.
c. Mexicans.
d. Jews.
6. The story of the Scottsboro boys illustrates the point that the Depression:
a. increased the number of homeless, vagrant males.
b. caused a return of old-fashioned outlaws in the West.
c. inflamed racial prejudice.
d. was especially devastating for young children of unemployed fathers.
7. As Herbert Hoover entered the presidency in 1929, all of the following were true of him EXCEPT:
a. he was a self‑made millionaire.
b. he was a self‑preoccupied investment banker.
c. he enjoyed a reputation as a competent and efficient engineer.
d. he enjoyed a reputation as a great humanitarian.
8. Herbert Hoover’s response to the Great Depression can best be summarized as:
a. no sympathy for individuals, and only verbal encouragement to business to build public confidence.
b. a series of attempts to lay the blame on speculators or international conditions to deflect political attacks.
c. a stoical decision to do little but reduce federal spending and await the eventual cyclical recovery.
d. initially, a voluntarist approach to both recovery and relief, but then the most sweeping series of active government measures ever enacted in peacetime up to that time.
9. Despite Hoover’s personal preferences, his administration ended up doing more than any previous effort to wield government power to reverse an economic downturn. Which of the following was NOT a measure Herbert Hoover used to alleviate the Depression?
1. The chapter introduction tells the story of federal investigator Lorena Hickok to make the point that:
a. the decade of Depression and New Deal was also the decade of gangsters, environmental abuse, and underground radical movements.
b. while New Deal programs helped many Americans, a closer look revealed inefficiency, corruption and waste.
c. Franklin Roosevelt not only had to lead the nation out of Depression, he also had to cope with entrenched opposition to his reforms within the federal government itself.
d. Depression‑bound Americans found hope in liberal social welfare programs of an activist federal government.
2. Most Depression movies, like much of popular culture, tended to:
a. critique the status quo.
b. provide dark images of horror or tragedy that played to the emotional despair of a suffering nation.
c. uphold the basic social and economic values of America.
d. push the limits of sex and violence in a time of social upheaval and discontent.
3. The dust storms that devastated the Plains resulted from all EXCEPT:
a. logging off the region’s trees.
b. intensive agriculture.
c. overgrazing.
d. drought and record high temperatures.
4. One result of the “Dust Bowl” was that:
a. California became the most populous state in the union.
b. several million people on the plains abandoned their farms and moved west.
c. Mexican Americans and African Americans took advantage of the opportunity to settle abandoned land.
d. big industrial agricultural cooperatives broke up into smaller units.
5. During the Depression, the federal government began to deport:
a. anarchists.
b. Japanese.
c. Mexicans.
d. Jews.
6. The story of the Scottsboro boys illustrates the point that the Depression:
a. increased the number of homeless, vagrant males.
b. caused a return of old-fashioned outlaws in the West.
c. inflamed racial prejudice.
d. was especially devastating for young children of unemployed fathers.
7. As Herbert Hoover entered the presidency in 1929, all of the following were true of him EXCEPT:
a. he was a self‑made millionaire.
b. he was a self‑preoccupied investment banker.
c. he enjoyed a reputation as a competent and efficient engineer.
d. he enjoyed a reputation as a great humanitarian.
8. Herbert Hoover’s response to the Great Depression can best be summarized as:
a. no sympathy for individuals, and only verbal encouragement to business to build public confidence.
b. a series of attempts to lay the blame on speculators or international conditions to deflect political attacks.
c. a stoical decision to do little but reduce federal spending and await the eventual cyclical recovery.
d. initially, a voluntarist approach to both recovery and relief, but then the most sweeping series of active government measures ever enacted in peacetime up to that time.
9. Despite Hoover’s personal preferences, his administration ended up doing more than any previous effort to wield government power to reverse an economic downturn. Which of the following was NOT a measure Herbert Hoover used to alleviate the Depression?
