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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the reason Isaacson suggests that John McCLoy's mother encouraged him to tutor children of her wealthy clients during summers away from school?
(a) Because he would be better able to continue his advanced studies while working with younger children.
(b) Because the pay was better than taking one of the part-time jobs in the city.
(c) So he could be networking for a good career.
(d) It was his mother's way of assuring he would make the right social contacts.

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

4. Where did John McCloy attend College according to Isaacson?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Amherst.

5. Which of the "Wise Men," according to Isaacson, attended The Hill School in Philadelphia?
(a) Chip Bohlen.
(b) Robert Lovett.
(c) John McCloy.
(d) George Kennan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson report to have served in active service during WWI?

2. Which president does Isaacson report Dean Acheson served as Assistant Secretary of State?

3. What does Isaacson report to be the legacy of Harvard's President Charles Elliot after his 40 year tenure ended in 1909?

4. Which two of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson claim understood the importance of trade and global involvement from their careers on Wall Street?

5. What does Isaacson claim to the Lovett's and Harriman's most important innovation to the industry for which they were prepared by Judge Lovett?

(see the answer key)

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