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6. When did FERA close and how much did it spend?

  • 1934 and $2 billion
  • 1935 and $40 billion
  • 1935 and $2 billion
  • 1934 and $40 billion

7. Examples of boondoggle jobs (a job with no importance) would be...

  • Sitting and observing precious artifacts
  • Scaring pigeons and writing an essay on the history of the paperclip
  • Running how to nourish your family classes
  • Busking on the streets and drawing pictures to sell

8. How many piglets were slaugtered becasue of the AAA?

  • 6 million
  • 5 million
  • 10 million
  • 16 million

9. How could the Third New Deal of 1937-39 be described?

  • Steady
  • Bustling
  • Stagnant
  • Thriving

10. What was special about the payment of the CCC?

  • They were paid $60 but $27 went back to the families
  • They were paid $30 but $27 went back to the families
  • They were paid $30 but $25 went back to the families
  • They were paid $60 but $25 went back to the families

11. What is the post-revisionist view?

  • The New Deal had successes and fialures
  • The New Deal was positive
  • The New Deal failed to bring about recovery
  • The New Deal was a wasted opportunity for radical change

12. What was an issue with the CCC?

  • People died from the labour
  • It was an outright failure
  • Segregation was rife
  • African-Americans were underfed

13. What does the NRA stand for?

  • National Releif Act
  • National Recovery Alliance
  • National Recovery Act
  • Nation Recovery Act

14. Before the Act, how many people had electricity at most?

  • 3%
  • 1%
  • 5%
  • 11%

15. What did FERA do?

  • It gives £500 million to all 48 states as well as setting up soup kitchens
  • It set up soup kitchens
  • It gives £500 million to all 48 states
  • It provided shelter, clothes, food and money to the needy

16. What did Oregon's Governor Martin say about the needy?

  • The needy need to be put to death
  • The needy need to be supported
  • The needy need FERA to help them get by for now

17. What is the revisionist view?

  • The New Deal was a wasted opportunity for radical change
  • The New Deal failed to bring about recovery
  • The New Deal had successes and fialures
  • The New Deal was positive

18. What was built by the PWA?

  • Golden Gate Bridge
  • Idlewield Airport
  • LaGuardia
  • Brooklyn Bridge

19. What was the TVA labelled?

  • Communist
  • Expensive
  • Revolutionary
  • A waste of time

20. What is SEC an acronym for?

  • Special-ops and Exchange Comission
  • Securities and Exchange Comission
  • Securities and Envy Comission
  • Securities and Exchange Concentration