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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Isaacson claim to be the most elite club at Yale?
(a) Scroll and Key.
(b) Ivy.
(c) DKE.
(d) Skull and Bones.

2. What does Isaacson claim to have been America's foreign policy following WWI?
(a) Interventionism.
(b) Nation building.
(c) Non-interventionism.
(d) Isolationism.

3. How does Isaacson claim Chip Bohlen became an important American diplomat in Russia?
(a) He was skillful in winning the trust of Russians who were desirous of escaping Soviet Communism and helped them escape to freedom.
(b) He could talk Russian like a native and had the ability to express blunt opinions with a disarming smile.
(c) He fully understood the demands of protocol and effectively avoided turmoil with his Russian hosts.
(d) He understood the priniples of communist dialectics and was able to navigate various negotiations with communist officials.

4. What does Isaacson claim to be Harriman's first crusade in his role with the Roosevelt Administration?
(a) To encourage the Fed to make low interest loans to investment banks.
(b) To gain federal funding for expanded rail road construction.
(c) To make rail transportation the exclusive means of transporting military equipment within the U.S. borders.
(d) To encourage the government to help increase the nation's rail freight capabilities.

5. Which of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson report to have served in active service during WWI?
(a) Chip Bohlen.
(b) Robert Lovett.
(c) John McCloy and Robert Lovett.
(d) Averell Harriman, George Kennan, and Dean Acheson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isaacson claim the six men profiled in The Wise Men represent?

2. Under what circumstances did Robert Lovett claim to Isaacson that he met the Harriman Family?

3. Who was the Supreme Court Justice for whom Dean Acheson clerked?

4. Where did John McCloy attend College according to Isaacson?

5. What exclusive club did Chip Bohlen join at Harvard according to Isaacson?

(see the answer key)

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