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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the focus of the agreement after the initial meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill, according to Isaacson?
(a) The United States would provide England with resources and war material at very favorable terms.
(b) Neither Britain nor the U.S. would attack each other or allies of each.
(c) Free trade and free people and self-determination for all nations.
(d) The nations of Western Europe would join in alliance to protect each other against intrusions from communist nations.

2. Under what circumstances did Robert Lovett claim to Isaacson that he met the Harriman Family?
(a) He met the Harriman Family while he visited his father's office with the Union Pacific Railroad.
(b) He met the Harriman Family on a Transatlantic cruise on his way to France.
(c) Lovett's father's private rail car was coupled onto E. H. Harriman's private train.
(d) He met the Harriman Family as he was moving to attend Yale Univeristy.

3. What does Isaacson report Vice President Harry Truman was doing when news of President Roosevelt's death was first leaked?
(a) Truman was in Sam Rayburn's hideaway in the Capitol Building playing cards.
(b) Truman was having dinner with his family as was his custom at that time of the day.
(c) Truman was in a foreign policy briefing with the Council of Foreign Relations.
(d) Truman was in the Vice President's office adjacent to the Senate floor preparing to go home for the evening.

4. Under which president did Dean Acheson serve in the Attorney General's office?
(a) Herbert Hoover.
(b) Franklin Roosevelt.
(c) Calvin Coolidge.
(d) Harry Truman.

5. What quality of Truman's does Isaacson claim was welcomed by the liaison between the State Department and the White House ?
(a) Truman's forthrightness.
(b) Truman's predictability.
(c) Truman's willingness to accept counsel.
(d) Truman's common perspective.

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

7. What decision did Harriman influence Stalin to make, according to Isaacson, to get around the decision of Secretary Stettinius?
(a) He used his connections in the Kremlin to navigate some of Stettinius's negotiations.
(b) He influenced Stalin to reject the replacement Stettinius planned to send.
(c) He advised Stalin to negotiate directly with Churchill to counter Stettinius' efforts.
(d) To send Vyacheslav Molotov to the grand opening of the United Nations so Harriman could accompany him on the trip.

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

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

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

11. Which two of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson claim understood the importance of trade and global involvement from their careers on Wall Street?
(a) George Kennan and Dean Acheson.
(b) Averell Harriman and Robert Lovett.
(c) John McCloy and Dean Acheson.
(d) Chip Bohlen and Robert Lovett.

12. Who was the Supreme Court Justice for whom Dean Acheson clerked?
(a) Mahlon Pitney.
(b) James Clark McReynolds.
(c) Louis Brandeis.
(d) William Howard Taft.

13. Who was the State Department's Liaison with the White House during the transfer of power from Roosevelt to Truman?
(a) Dean Acheson.
(b) John McCloy.
(c) Charles Bohlen.
(d) George Kennan.

14. What does Isaacson claim the six men profiled in The Wise Men represent?
(a) Moderate Republicans.
(b) New Democrats.
(c) Ivy League colleges.
(d) The American Establishment.

15. 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 fully understood the demands of protocol and effectively avoided turmoil with his Russian hosts.
(c) He could talk Russian like a native and had the ability to express blunt opinions with a disarming smile.
(d) He understood the priniples of communist dialectics and was able to navigate various negotiations with communist officials.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two post-secondary schools does Isaacson report George Kennan attended?

2. Isaacson reports that Averell Harriman took what position in the Roosevelt Administration?

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

4. With whom did John McCloy and Robert Lovett serve as advisers to the Secretary of War, according to Isaacson?

5. When did Averell Harriman join the most elite club at Yale according to Isaacson?

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