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Hoover Reading Quiz

Authored by Riley Bogema

History

10th - 12th Grade

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Hoover Reading Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why do American visit the Hoover Dam?

The most famous dam in the world

Environmental farming disaster

Cause by stock market collapse and bank runs

President Hoover is buried inside the dam

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the purpose of the Dam?

generate hydroelectric power and permit managed irrigation in southern California's imperial Valley.

Helped Franklin Roosevelt beat Hoover in the 1932 election

to help prevent environmental farming disaster

prevent drought in the midwest

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who took office as president in 1929?

Herbert Hoover

Theodore Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did the Hoover Dam combat the Great Depression?

provide construction contracts and jobs to western companies and Americans

provide direct relief to Americans on the east coast

influx of government money into the banking system

showed the failure of "rugged individualism"

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did "high scalers do"?

Men who were lowered over the rim of the Hoover Dam to clear away loose rock

Men who used explosives to clear the Hoover Dam tunnels

Name of the Bonus Army communist agents

Hoover's nickname

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What year was the Hoover Dam started and finished?

1931 - 1935

1923 - 1935

1929 - 1934

1914-1918

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why was the Hoover Dam originally not named after President Hoover?

Hoover didn't want the Dam built

Franklin Roosevelt didn't want it named after his predecessor

Franklin Roosevelt wanted it named after his wife

Hoover felt ashamed that the dam was built

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