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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would the Republicans have preferred instead of an armistice?
(a) Continuing the war.
(b) Withdrawal; but continue funding South Korea.
(c) A victory.
(d) Install a dictatorial regime in South Korea.

2. What was Eisenhower thinking of during his recovery?
(a) If he should run for president in 1956.
(b) If the Soviets knew about the U-2 flights.
(c) If he could beat the Russians with a pre-emptive strike.
(d) If the U.S. military could win in Germany.

3. What did Eisenhower refuse to do, despite Khrushchev's ultimatum?
(a) Remove NATO troops from West Berlin.
(b) Remove its nuclear missiles from Turkey.
(c) Decommission half of its bomber fleet.
(d) Decommission its nuclear submarine.

4. Who was at the head of Russia in 1958?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Putin.
(c) Bregnev.
(d) Khrushchev.

5. What did Eisenhower try to convince Nixon of?
(a) Run for President.
(b) Give the money he stole back.
(c) Abandon politics.
(d) Take himself off the 1956 ticket.

6. Who was the senate hearing interviewing at the start of Chapter 14?
(a) Army personnel.
(b) Journalists.
(c) Actors.
(d) School teachers.

7. Who was Eisenhower starting to investigate during the senate hearing?
(a) Military scientists.
(b) Senators.
(c) Governors.
(d) Military doctors.

8. What was Eisenhower's last order to his son and grandson?
(a) To scatter his ashes at sea.
(b) To close his eyes.
(c) To lift him to a sitting position.
(d) To leave the room.

9. What was the topic of the conference in which the Russians agreed to participate in 1958?
(a) Prisoner exchange.
(b) Space flight.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Talk about supervision of nuclear weapons testing.

10. What did Eisenhower think the U.S. had enough of?
(a) Rockets.
(b) Tanks.
(c) Airplanes.
(d) Atomic weapons.

11. Who would the U.S. support if France and Britain did not agree to a cease fire, in Chapter 17?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Iran.
(c) Germany.
(d) Egypt.

12. What summit took place in July 1955, according to Chapter 16?
(a) The Alger Summit.
(b) The Washington Summit.
(c) The Geneva Summit.
(d) The Paris Summit.

13. Who did Eisenhower win over in the presidential election of 1956?
(a) Kennedy.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Stevenson.

14. What did Eisenhower do in secrecy so as not to attract McCarthy's attention?
(a) Removed Oppenheimer from the H bomb project.
(b) Had Oppenheimer exchanged for American agents.
(c) Promoted Fermi.
(d) Promoted Oppenheimer.

15. Why did Eisenhower forget about doing simple things?
(a) Alzheimer's.
(b) His strokes.
(c) Because since 1941 they had been done for him.
(d) His laziness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Eisenhower conflict with in the recent years, according to Chapter 14?

2. What did Eisenhower discover quickly after the start of the summit?

3. What happened after Eisenhower requested American scientists have access to more test sites in Soviet Russia?

4. What did the U.S. and the Soviets agree on at the end of the summit?

5. Who occasionally called Eisenhower for advice?

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