Chapter 22

Quiz for Document 22-1: Herbert Hoover, Letter to Simeon Fess (1933)

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Question 1

In his 1933 letter to Senator Simeon D. Fess, outgoing president Herbert Hoover expresses considerable alarm over which of the following elements of Franklin Roosevelt’s plan for the future?A. The Glass Banking Bill
B. His plan to pack the Supreme Court
C. His balanced budget plan
D. Deficit spending

Question 2

What, according to Hoover, intensified bank failures, increased unemployment, and caused a general worsening of the economic depression in 1932 and 1933?A. Concern over the rise of global authoritarian militarism
B. Fear of the expected New Deal’s fiscal and monetary policies
C. Global trade and currency conflicts
D. Polarization of political extremism in the U.S.

Question 3

Hoover discusses particularly “dangerous” New Deal measures—federal loans for public works and Tennessee Valley infrastructure projects—that were associated with the recent party platform of theA. Democratic Party.
B. Greenback Party.
C. Progressive Party.
D. Republican Party.