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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What career did Margaret Truman plan to enter?
(a) Computer science
(b) Publishing agent
(c) Nursing
(d) Singer
2. In later years, how does Harry describe his childhood?
(a) One misery after another
(b) He could not remember his chidlhood
(c) The happiest imaginable
(d) filled with poverty and need
3. What two political positions did Truman want before he was allowed to run for Senate?
(a) Mayor of Lamar and Mayor of Independence
(b) Governor of MIssouri and Mayor fo Independence
(c) Mayor of Independence and Governor of Illinois
(d) Governor of Missouri and Congressman from Missouri
4. What was one voting faction in this election that had never been involved in presidential elections before?
(a) Blacks were allowed to vote.
(b) Women were allowed to vote
(c) Jews were allowed to vote
(d) Family pets, if pedigreed, were allowed to vote
5. What was Truman's attitude towards running for Vice President?
(a) He was afraid of running
(b) He was eager to run
(c) He did not have an opinion
(d) He did not want to
6. 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
7. Harry Truman travels to see Bess in Grandview. How many miles one way is the trip?
(a) Sixteen Miles
(b) Three hundred Miles
(c) One Mile
(d) Fifty Miles
8. How many days was Truman Vice President?
(a) 82
(b) None
(c) 155
(d) 3
9. What event propelled the United States into WWII?
(a) Sinking of the Titanic
(b) Japanese attack on the fleet at Parl Harbor in Hawaii
(c) Bombing of World Trade Center
(d) Killing of Arch Duke Ferdinand
10. Who resigns from Truman's cabinet before Potsdam?
(a) Secretary of War
(b) Vice President
(c) Secretary of Treasury
(d) His intern
11. What are the names of Harry's brother and sister?
(a) J. Vivian and Mary Jane
(b) Harrison and Bess
(c) Jim and Eleanor
(d) Franklin and Eleanor
12. Who was in charge of the Soviet Union when Truman became President?
(a) Hitler
(b) Josef Stalin
(c) Kruschev
(d) Gorbachev
13. Truman's foreign office is warning him about the after war dangers of which country?
(a) Soviet Union
(b) Mexico
(c) Japan
(d) Argentina
14. What was one of the unique things about the Truman Committee?
(a) None of the members were Senators
(b) The Senate does not usually operate by committee
(c) The committee was unanimous on every report.
(d) All of the members were white men
15. How many members did the Truman Committee have?
(a) Three
(b) Seven
(c) Fifteen
(d) Only one
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the most common method of travel for settlers in the 1800s to take to Independence?
2. What are two traits Truman especially disliked about his fellow politicians?
3. What pivotal event occurred on December 7, 1941?
4. What was the beginning of the end for Tom Pendergast? .
5. What was an overriding concern for Truman in his early years as a Senator in Washington?
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