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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What family member does Truman lose in July of 1947?
(a) His wife
(b) His father
(c) His mother
(d) His daughter
2. What career is Margaret Truman pursuing?
(a) Computer Science
(b) Acting
(c) Singing
(d) Lab Technician
3. Whose appointment to Truman's cabinet made a positive and calming effect?
(a) George Marshall
(b) Jimmy Brynes
(c) Henry Wallace
(d) Charlie Ross
4. Why did Truman write an angry letter to the newspaper?
(a) A reporter was stalking Margaret
(b) A reporter had published a comment he thought was off record
(c) His Sunday paper did not arrive on time
(d) A columnist had given Margaret's concert a bad review
5. What was a whistle-stop?
(a) A street corner
(b) A method used to veto a bill
(c) The term used to call for a taxi while standing on the sidewalk
(d) Term used to describe Truman's style of campaigning by stopping his Presidential train in every small town along the way so he could meet the American people.
6. Who do Truman's supporters and staff encourage him to fire as a result of Fulbright's Senate committee report?
(a) General MacArthur
(b) George Marshall
(c) Bill Boyle, Democratic National Chairman
(d) George Patton
7. What happened to the President's normal work when he was on the campaign trail?
(a) It continued as before from Truman's desk on the train
(b) His staff collected all the papers and held them until he arrived home
(c) Bess took care of it
(d) The vice president handled everything
8. Which of Truman's family members accompanied him on the campaign trail?
(a) Bess and Margaret
(b) His brother and his brother's wife and sons
(c) His sister and mother
(d) His mother and father
9. How many people did Oppenheimer estimate the bomb would kill?
(a) None
(b) 20,000
(c) Two million
(d) 200,000
10. Where does the only meeting in history of Truman and MacArthur take place?
(a) Potsdam
(b) New Mexico
(c) Wake Island
(d) Washington DC
11. Why doesn't the military deploy more divisions in North Korea?
(a) MacArthur refuses to allow it
(b) The Allies won't allow it
(c) Without depleting the European military presence, there are no more divisions.
(d) Truman does not think it is necessary
12. What weapon is Truman encouraged to authorize to end the Korean Conflict?
(a) Atom bomb
(b) Biological warfare
(c) Heavy tanks
(d) H-Bomb
13. Who in the government has the final say regarding military matters?
(a) Supreme Commander of the Forces
(b) The Vice President
(c) Secretary of State
(d) The President
14. Who were "The Big Three" of the Potsdam conference?
(a) Truman, DeGaulle and Patton
(b) Gorbachev, Bush and Truman
(c) Truman, Churchill and Stalin
(d) Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
15. How much did the White House renovation cost?
(a) 5.8 million dollars
(b) 300,000
(c) 1 million dollars
(d) Nothing - all work was donated
Short Answer Questions
1. How did the leaders entertain each other in the evenings of the conference?
2. What was the origination of the term "pinko?"
3. What is one Presidential first that is mentioned in this chapter?
4. Who of Truman's long time friends was most instrumental in advising him regarding the Palestine problem?
5. What was Barkley's "prop-stop" campaign?
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