Chapter 22

Quiz for Chapter Twenty-Two Analyzing Voices: Ordinary People Respond to the New Deal

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Question 1

In her letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. M. H. A. wrote, “My work has continued and my salary alone has just been sufficient to make our monthly payments on the house and keep our bills paid. . . . But with the exception of two and one-half months work with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey . . . my husband has not had work since August, 1932.” This passage provides evidence of which of the following Depression-era trends?

Question 2

In an unsigned letter to Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, a Texas factory worker wrote, “I can’t see for my life President why a man must toil and work his life out in Such factories 10 long hours ever day except Sunday for a small sum of 15 cents to 35 cents per hour & pay the high cost of honest & deason living expences. . . . please see if something can be done to help this one Class of Working People.” Which part of the New Deal specifically addressed the issues that were raised in this letter?

Question 3

In May 1934, an architect and builder from Lincoln, Nebraska, wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt, “We have been honorable citizens all along our journey, calamity and old age has forced its self upon us please do not send us to the Poor Farm but instead allow us the small pension of $40.00 per month.” The Roosevelt administration responded to situations like this one with which of the following programs?

Question 4

In her 1937 letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, M. A., the low-level corporate employee, wrote, “We expect to be tramped on but we do wish the stepping would be a little less hard. Security at the price of freedom is never desired by intelligent people.” The writer is expressing her opposition to which of the following?