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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) As a student at Harvard Law School.
(d) Through the law firm where John McCloy was employed.

2. Under whom does Isaacson report Kennan studied for his chosen field?
(a) Alexander Kirk.
(b) William Castle.
(c) Joseph Grew.
(d) Angus Crawford.

3. What were the three questions President Truman wrote regarding America's confrontation with Soviet aggression?
(a) "Will Russia move first? Who pulls the trigger? Then where do we go?"
(b) "What is our move when Russia moves? Should we move first? Who pulls the trigger?"
(c) "Can the communists really support such a spread of empire? Does communism have any real chance of surviving in our system? How much is this going to cost the government?"
(d) "Can we afford to confront the Soviets? Will the voters support us? Can the country survive more wars?"

4. What does Isaacson suggest started becoming a concern to the six "Wise Men" shortly after WWII began?
(a) "America's stormy relationship with her Soviet Allies."
(b) "Stalin could be blunt, but then so could Harriman."
(c) "Isolationist directing public policy placed America in peril during the early months of the war."
(d) "In public...Roosevelt would henceforth proclaim that the Atlantic Charter...was the foundaton of American foreign policy."

5. Where did Chip Bohlen grow up, according to Isaacson?
(a) Paris.
(b) Grindstone Island, New York.
(c) Aiken, South Carolina.
(d) New York City.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What political movement did Bohlen defend to his classmates?

3. What unusual practice did Soviet pilots take as they flew in approach to Russian cities, according to Isaacson?

4. What does Isaacson report to have been the reaction to communist tactics against the Marshall Plan?

5. What position did the "Wise Man" who implemented the Lend Lease program eventually take in the Roosevelt administration?

(see the answer key)

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