Worldwide depression - Exam
  • 1. What year did the Great Depression begin?
A) 1950
B) 1929
C) 1935
D) 1945
  • 2. Which country was hit hardest by the Great Depression?
A) United States
B) United Kingdom
C) Japan
D) Germany
  • 3. What event triggered the Great Depression?
A) World War I
B) Stock market crash
C) Black Death
D) Industrial Revolution
  • 4. What were shantytowns called during the Great Depression?
A) Roosevelt camps
B) New Deal towns
C) Depression villages
D) Hoovervilles
  • 5. Which country experienced hyperinflation during the Great Depression?
A) United Kingdom
B) United States
C) Germany
D) Japan
  • 6. Which book by John Steinbeck depicted the struggles of the Great Depression?
A) The Grapes of Wrath
B) To Kill a Mockingbird
C) East of Eden
D) Of Mice and Men
  • 7. What was the unemployment rate during the Great Depression?
A) 25%
B) 50%
C) 5%
D) 10%
  • 8. Which president introduced the New Deal program to address the Great Depression?
A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) Calvin Coolidge
C) Herbert Hoover
D) Woodrow Wilson
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