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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 was the real name of the Truman Committee?
(a) Committee to Re-Elect President Roosevelt
(b) Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program
(c) Committee on Defense Contractors
(d) Committee on Un-American Affairs

2. What was a dollar-a-year man?
(a) A man whose only worth was one dollar
(b) A businessman who kept his original salary from his company and worked for the government for a token small salary, all for the war effort.
(c) A man who stole one dollar per day from the government
(d) A man whose only income was one dollar

3. Why does Harry Truman leave his job in Kansas City?
(a) To join the Army
(b) To marry Bess
(c) To help the family with the farm.
(d) He was fired

4. Who was the leader of the Dixiecrats?
(a) Strom Thurmond
(b) Adlai Stevenson
(c) Jefferson Davis
(d) Henry Wallace

5. Who was employed to work for Harry Truman, in his office, for a $2500 annual salary?
(a) His mother
(b) John Truman
(c) Eleanor Roosevelt
(d) Bess Truman

Short Answer Questions

1. What is cost-plus construction?

2. What was the Canol Project?

3. Whose photographs does Harry carry in his uniform pocket during the entire war?

4. What new inventions did Truman never learn to use or like?

5. Where did most of the sayings, such as "a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches", that were part of Truman's upbringing, originate?

(see the answer key)

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