Question 1
The National Recovery Administration
A) negotiated with business and labor to regulate wages.
B) sought to regulate production quotas.
C) set ceilings and floors on prices for consumer goods.
D) sought voluntary compliance even though it had the power to enforce its regulations.
E) All of these are correct.
Question 2
Pugachev's rebellion broke out after
A) a bad harvest caused massive starvation in Poland.
B) Prussia successfully invaded Russia and seized half of the Ukraine.
C) Catherine the Great's policies worsened conditions for the peasantry.
D) Catherine the Great reduced the power of the landed nobility.
E) Russia's defeat by the Ottoman Empire.
Question 3
Catherine the Great of Russia
A) followed a successful policy of expansion against the Turks.
B) instigated enlightened reforms for the peasantry after the revolt of Emelyn Pugachev.
C) weakened the nobility with her extensive enlightened reforms.
D) successfully eliminated the power of the Russian representative assembly.
E) established a permanent political and military alliance with revolutionary France.
Question 4
Which of the following was not a New Deal measure initiated during Roosevelt's administration?
A) the Home Owner's Loan Corporation.
B) the Federal Emergency Relief Agency.
C) the National Industrial Recovery Act.
D) the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
E) the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
Question 5
Keynesian economic theory
A) advocated centralized economic planning.
B) advocated government spending.
C) recommended deficit spending.
D) guided Roosevelt's New Deal.
E) All of these are correct.