| Coverage : The Great Depression Quiz is designed to determine how much you know about this historical financial crises that affected not only the United States, but the entire world. |
| 1. | Many factors led up to the Great Depression, but the triggering event was: |
| a. | | The stock market crash of October 1929 |
| b. | | The economic cost of World War I |
| c. | | The question of the war reparations from World War I |
| d. | | The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act |
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| 2. | The president of the U.S. when the Great Depression began was: |
| a. | | Warren G. Harding |
| b. | | Herbert Hoover
cFranklin D. Roosevelt |
| d. | | Calvin Coolidge |
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| 3. | The economy of _____ fell further than that of any nation other than the United States, and it took far longer to recover. However, unlike in the U.S., there were no bank failures in this country. |
| a. | | Germany |
| b. | | France |
| c. | | Great Britain |
| d. | | Canada |
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| 4. | The Great Depression was responsible for Great Britain being driven off the gold standard in _____. |
| a. | | 1931 |
| b. | | 1932 |
| c. | | 1933 |
| d. | | 1934 |
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| 5. | The effects of the Great Depression had a great deal to do with the rise of the Nazis in Germany. |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False |
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| 6. | The economic effects of the Great Depression led to a number of severe riots in _____ on February 6, 1934. |
| a. | | Britain |
| b. | | Germany |
| c. | | France |
| d. | | Italy |
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| 7. | _____ had a relatively isolated economy, with high protective tariffs and was experiencing other economic problems with the need for land reform, overall development, and better education levels. It was not one of the main countries affected by the Depression. |
| a. | | Spain |
| b. | | Canada |
| c. | | Australia |
| d. | | Belgium |
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| 8. | In _____, unemployment reached a record high of 29% in 1932, one of the highest rates in the world. |
| a. | | Britain |
| b. | | United States |
| c. | | Canada |
| d. | | Australia |
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| 9. | Japan was hurt only slightly by the Great Depression with the economy recovering by 1932. |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False |
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| 10. | The Great Depression as a campaign issue was largely responsible for the defeat of _____ in the 1932 U.S. presidential election. |
| a. | | Calvin Coolidge |
| b. | | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| c. | | Herbert Hoover |
| d. | | Harry Truman |
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| 11. | Roosevelt's program designed to restructure the economy was called: |
| a. | | The New Deal |
| b. | | The Great Society |
| c. | | Happy Days |
| d. | | Camelot |
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| 12. | The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was one of the programs created under Roosevelt's recovery plan. |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False |
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