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