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