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Quiz for Document 24–1: Martha Gellhorn to Harry Hopkins, November 11, 1934

Choose the best answer to each question.

Question 24.1

1. Which of the following best characterizes the way the North Carolina textile workers described President Franklin Roosevelt to reporter Martha Gellhorn?

They mistrusted him deeply.

Their big expectations had been crushed.

They adored and revered him.

Most did not even know his name.

Question 24.2

2. What problem did Gellhorn identify among relief recipients in North Carolina?

Family abandonment

An inclination toward radicalism

Health issues due to malnutrition

Lack of work ethic

Question 24.3

3. Why did Gellhorn support birth control for relief recipients?

She was concerned that the poor outnumbered the better classes.

She believed poor families were overburdened by too many children.

She thought families were having children in order to receive larger relief payments.

She argued that technological advances meant that mills required less human labor.

Question 24.4

4. How did Gellhorn characterize New Deal opponents?

As justified in their objection to the expense of government programs

As receptive to new ideas and experiments

As mistaken in their allegations of a potential social revolution

As well informed about the plight of poor Americans