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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of Truman's past most concerned the Democratic Party for the campaign?
(a) His connection with the Freemasons
(b) His past farming duties
(c) His connection with Boss Pendergast
(d) The fact Bess Truman's father committed suicide

2. What were the nicknames for the divisions in the Missouri Democratic Party?
(a) Goats and Rabbits
(b) Rats and Pigs
(c) Donkeys and Elephants
(d) Hares and Turtles

3. What did Truman think was a damaging move by Roosevelt?
(a) The attempt to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices
(b) Entering WWI
(c) Bombing the Japanese home cities
(d) Entering WWII

4. What major personal events occur for Harry Truman in Chapter 5?
(a) He is divorced from his first wife and moves to Kansas City
(b) He is forced to undergo a paternity test
(c) He gets married and his daughter is born
(d) He is ordained as a preacher and married

5. Why was it so important to create an Atomic Energy Commission?
(a) To prevent spies from access to the secrets
(b) To provide civilian, not military, control of this new awesome power
(c) To have a method of channeling funding to the project
(d) To make Truman look good

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Harry Truman when he arrived in Washington D.C. to assume his duties as a Senator?

2. Where did the Truman family live until the Roosevelt family departed the White House?

3. How did the three world leaders enter the conference room in Potsdam?

4. In what country was Potsdam located?

5. What are two traits Truman especially disliked about his fellow politicians?

(see the answer key)

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