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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson report to have negotiated trade deals with leaders of the communist government in Russia in 1922?
(a) Averell Harriman.
(b) Chip Bohlen.
(c) Dean Acheson.
(d) Robert Lovett.

2. For what purpose had Robert Lovett's father been grooming him and Averell Harriman since their graduation from college, according to Isaacson?
(a) To help him run his investment banks.
(b) To move into foreign service for the government.
(c) To help him run the Union Pacific railway empire.
(d) To become new masters of the emerging high finance sector of the economy.

3. How did John McCloy come into contact with Averell Harriman and Robert Lovett?
(a) While he was directing a law office in Paris.
(b) As an advisor with the War Department.
(c) Through the law firm where John McCloy was employed.
(d) As a student at Harvard Law School.

4. Who does Isaacson report to be the U.S. ambassador to Russia immediately after WWII?
(a) John McCloy.
(b) Averell Harriman.
(c) Robert Lovett.
(d) George Kennan.

5. What political movement did Bohlen defend to his classmates?
(a) Cobdenite free traders.
(b) Corporate fascism.
(c) Labor Unionists.
(d) Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Isaacson claim Averell Harriman and Dean Acheson first met?

3. Which of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson report to be the son of a wealthy railway tycoon?

4. What does Isaacson claim to be the purpose of the club that Bohlen joined?

5. Where did Chip Bohlen grow up, according to Isaacson?

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