Air Midterm

 Relax. This “air midterm” does not count toward your grade, and you do not even turn it in. Instead, use it to appraise your own progress in the course. Try out this practice test, either in your head or on paper. If you flounder, then you should take more care with class sessions and assigned readings.

I. Identifications In a short paragraph each, explain the meaning and significance of the following items. What is fair game for an identification?

• Items that we have discussed in class or on the blog;
• Items that appear in bold or italics in the readings;
• Items that cover several pages in the readings.

Items

• Smoot-Hawley
• TVA
• Hill-Burton
• Sputnik
• Wilbur Mills
• AFDC
• OEO
• Mollie Orshansky
• The Little Rock crisis
• Humphrey's Executor

II. Short essays. In a couple of paragraphs each, answer the following.

• Define path dependency and give a specific example from this course.
• Briefly explain how a policy window opened in 1964.
• What happened to the National Industrial Recovery Act?

III. General Essays 

• How did the political setting for domestic public policy change between 1932 and 1952? Explain, with reference to the Clifford memo and other course readings.
• Describe and explain three effects of the Second World War on domestic public policy.

Bonus questions.  Very briefly identify the following:

• Richard Russell
• A. Philip Randolph
• Owen Roberts
• Sam Rayburn
• Ricci Ramos