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Quiz for Document 24–5: Conservatives Criticize the New Deal, 1936–1937

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Where did most of the ideas of the New Deal come from, according to Herbert Hoover?

Wilsonian progressives

Modern Republicans

Roosevelt’s simple mind

Abroad and from radicals

2. What was Hoover’s criticism of the New Deal?

It created meaningless jobs for the unemployed.

It was not spending enough to improve the lives of the poor.

It had so enlarged the role of government that it infringed on personal freedom.

Its many programs were uncoordinated and contradictory.

3. How did Minnie Hardin characterize the relief recipients she had observed?

As hard-working people

As lazy and undeserving

As scheming criminals

As unlucky victims

4. What policy toward the poor did Hardin advocate?

Larger public employment programs

Loss of voting rights

Food aid rather than cash payments

Deportation of immigrants on relief