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“A Short History of the Great Depression” Multiple Choice Questions
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1. What does W.P.A. stand for?
A. Works Progress Administration
B. A deep recession
C. World War II
D. None of the above
2. When did unemployment rates soar 20%?
A. 1932
B. 1941
C. 1929
D. 1935
3. When did W.P.A. begin?
A. 1935
B. 1736
C. 1941
D. 1943
4. When did W.P.A. end?
A. 1943
B. 1954
C. 1939
D. 1932
5. What is this article about?
A. The great depression
B. Stock market and crash
C. Unemployment
D. All of the above
6. What year did the great depression start?
A. 1932
B. 1929
C. 1933
D. 1959
7. Who was the president during the great depression?
A. Hoover
B. Franklin
C. Hitler
D. Roosevelt
8. What happened in December of 1941?
A. Bombing of Pearl harbor
B. Start of the depression
C. Draft
D. W.P.A. war created
9. What is the W.P.A.?
A. Women protection agency
B. Workers protections agency
C. White people association
D. War protection agency
10. What was the tone of the author throughout the story?
A. Humorous
C. Direct
B. Personal
D. Sad
11. What happened on October 29, 1929?
A. Market crashed
B. Collapse of food price
C. The presidential campaign
D. The unemployment rate went up
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12. What was the unemployment rate in 1932?
A. 27%
B. 20%
C. 30%
D. 35%
13. What happened on March 4, 1933?
A. George took office
B. Roosevelt took office
C. Obama took office
D. Hoover took office
14. What date was Pearl Harbor attacked?
A. 1941
B. 1931
C. 1947
D. 1950
15. What is the tone of the article?
A. Informative
B. Persuasive
C. Humorous
D. Sad
16. Who was the president at this time?
A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
B. Herbert Hoover
C. Hitler
D. JFK
17. What is the passage about?
A. The Great Depression
B. FDR
C. WWII
D. Market
18. How many times was Roosevelt elected?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 10
19. What is the Great Depression?
A. Worldwide crisis
B. Probation
C. Stock market
D. Businesses
20. What was Roosevelt’s famous speech?
A. I have a dream
B. The only thing to fear is fear itself
C. The 3rd right
D. Speech of pearl harbor
21. What is the tone of the article?
A. Direct
B. Humorous
C. Persuasive
D. Exclamatory
22. What is the article about?
A. The great depression
B. Social security act
C. 1940 election
D. W.P.A.
23. Who was the president during the era?
A. Franklin
B. Hitler
C. Roosevelt
D. Hoover
24. When did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
A. 1940
B. 1941
C. 1954
D. 1932
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25. When did the depression start?
A. 1929
B. 1932
C. 1933
D. 1934
26. When did the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
A. October 29, 1929
B. March 4, 1933
C. December 1941
D. Winter of 1933-34
27. By 1932 the unemployment soared over what percent?
A. 20%
C. 24.9%
B. 23%
D. 89%
28. What was the Great Depression?
A. Large-scale temporary jobs program
B. Worldwide economic crisis that in the United States was marked by widespread unemployment, near halts
industrial production and construction
C. Backdrop
D. Presidential campaign
29. In what country is the main focus of the passage?
A. Poland
B. Japan
C. England
D. United States
30. What year did the W.P.A. end?
A. 1943
B. 1938
C. 1935
D. 1954
31. What is the Great Depression?
A. A time of thriving people
B. A worldwide economic crisis
C. Homeless people
D. Election of presidents
32. What happened in 1932?
A. Unemployment rose past 20%
B. Roosevelt took office
C. Roosevelt created a temporary jobs program
D. Farmers were caught in the depression
33. What was “Black Tuesday”?
A. Soldiers were drafted
B. stock market crashed
C. Holocaust
D. Pearl harbor
34. What happened in December 1941?
A. Hitler died
B. The depression ended
C. Pearl harbor
D. World war I
35. When did the Great Depression end?
A. 1931
B. 1939
C. 1941
D. 1954
36. When was Pearl Harbor?
A. 1941
B. 1942
C. 1943
D. 1944
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37. When was black Tuesday?
A. Sep. 29, 1924
B. Nov. 29, 1924
C. Oct. 29, 1929
D. June 24, 1929
38. What is the title of this article?
A. History of the short depression
B. A short history of the great depression
C. Great history
D. Depression and stuff
39. What was the civilian conservation corps?
A. Parks, forest
B. Government
C. CIA
D. Congress
40. When did the stock market regain its levels?
A. 1941
B. 1933
C. 1954
D. 1929
41. Who was elected in 1932?
A. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
B. Obama
C. George Bush
D. Bill Clinton
42. What was the Great Depression?
A. city crisis
B. United States crisis
C. A worldwide crisis
D. A mood set
43. When did the Great Depression start?
A. 1839
B. “Black Tuesday” Oct. 29, 1929
C. 1932
D. 1933-1934
44. What is the title of the story?
A. Great Depression
B. Roosevelt elected in the great depression
C. A Short History of the Great Depression
D. The stock market crash
45. What was the declaration that was made in March 4, 1933?
A. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself?
C. “On margin”
B. “new deals for the American people”
D. “8.5 million people spending $11 billion”
46. When was Roosevelt elected?
A. 1933
B. 1954
C. 1944
D. 1929
47. What is “Black Tuesday”?
A. Unemployment rate went up
B. Stock market crash
C. Roosevelt won the election
D. Hitler’s invasion of Poland
48. What is this article about?
A. Hitler
B. Farmer’s depression
C. The Great Depression
D. Roosevelt
49. Who attacked the Pearl Harbor?
A. Japanese
B. Germans
C. Italians
D. Americans
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50. When did they regain depression levels?
A. 1954
B. 1928
C. 1934
D. 1926
51. When was Black Tuesday?
A. Oct 29, 1929
B. June 29, 1929
C. September 29, 1924
D. Nov. 29, 1929
52. How many terms did Roosevelt have?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
53. What is this article about?
A. President
B. The depression
C. War
D. The campaign
54. What was the great depression?
A. Stock market crash
B. Stock market growth
C. Campaign
D. New deal
55. When did the stock market recover?
A. 1954
B. 1955
C. 1953
D. 1956
56. What was causing Roosevelt to take action, trying to get people who didn’t have jobs to get jobs and some
money for food?
A. The recession through 1938
C. The great depression
B. World war II
D. The attack on pearl harbor
57. What was the passage trying to do for the reader?
A. Entertain
B. Persuade
C. Inform
D. None of the above
58. What was the unemployment rate in 19323?
A. 25%
B. 20.8%
C. Past 20.8%
D. None of the above
59. Who was elected in the great depression?
A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Franklin Roosevelt
C. George Washington
D. None of the above
60. What was Black Tuesday?
A. The day the stock market crashed
B. The day Hitler invaded Poland
C. The day the Japanese bombed pearl harbor
D. The end of the depression
61. Who was elected president in 1933?
A. Franklin Roosevelt
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Nick Taylor
D. Dow Jones
62. Who won the presidential election in 1936?
A. Franklin Roosevelt
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Nick Taylor
D. Dow Jones
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63. When was Pearl Harbor?
A. December of 1941
B. 1936
C. 1954
D. 1937
64. What is this article about?
A. The great depression
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Germany invading Poland
D. Franklin Roosevelt
65. What happened on October 29, 29129?
A. The unemployment rate soared past 20%
B. The presidential campaign
C. Black Tuesday
D. Banks regained equilibrium
66. What was the Great Depression?
A. A worldwide economic crisis
B. High unemployment rate
C. The period which Roosevelt was elected
D. All of the above
67. Which statement is a fact?
A. Roosevelt was a great President
B. The great depression was very sad
C. Farmers were caught in a depression of their
own through the 1920’s
D. Hitler was amazing
68. March 4, 1993 _________________________ took office?
A. Lincoln
C. Hitler
B. Roosevelt
D. Japan
69. The overall point of this article is?
A. To talk about Roosevelt’s time as president
B. The great depression was bad time period
C. To talk about pearl harbor
D. To tell how Hitler started WWII
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