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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Nixon respond to Eisenhower's request concerning the 1956 election?
(a) He stalled.
(b) He tried to mount Kennedy against Eisenhower.
(c) He refused.
(d) He accepted.

2. What did the U.S. think of Russia's motives for the conference?
(a) They did not trust them.
(b) They were inconsequential.
(c) They were hidden.
(d) They were pure.

3. How long did it take for Eisenhower to sign an armistice with the KPA?
(a) 18 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 6 months.

4. What did Arkansas do in September 1958 after the National Guard was recalled?
(a) They fought in court.
(b) They accepted the current situation.
(c) They burned the school.
(d) They closed Central High School.

5. What happened to Eisenhower in September 1955?
(a) Eisenhower had a stroke.
(b) Eisenhower broke his arm.
(c) Eisenhower had a heart attack.
(d) Eisenhower broke his leg.

6. What was the lasting effect of Eisenhower's medical problem?
(a) Not able to feel his hand.
(b) Numbness on one side.
(c) Difficulty walking.
(d) Reversal of syllables in long words.

7. What did people have trouble comprehending, according to Eisenhower?
(a) The complexity of an atomic bomb.
(b) What M.A.D. was.
(c) The power of atomic weapons.
(d) What acceptable losses meant.

8. Why did the U.S. military want more money?
(a) To build more tanks.
(b) To build more rockets.
(c) To build a carrier fleet.
(d) To make more atomic weapons.

9. Why did Eisenhower forget about doing simple things?
(a) Because since 1941 they had been done for him.
(b) His strokes.
(c) Alzheimer's.
(d) His laziness.

10. What was lost at the end of the senate hearing on Communism?
(a) Eisenhower's will to continue being President.
(b) McCarthy's credibility.
(c) All traces of Oppenheimer.
(d) The plans for the H bomb.

11. Who occasionally called Eisenhower for advice?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Gerald Ford.
(c) Lyndon Johnson.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

12. What did Eisenhower think the U.S. had enough of?
(a) Atomic weapons.
(b) Airplanes.
(c) Rockets.
(d) Tanks.

13. What did Eisenhower think of the next President and the relationship with the Russians?
(a) The next President would have to be strong.
(b) The next President could not be Communist.
(c) The next President could not hesitate to launch the missiles.
(d) Peace would not be the next President's main focus.

14. What did Eisenhower do in secrecy so as not to attract McCarthy's attention?
(a) Promoted Oppenheimer.
(b) Promoted Fermi.
(c) Removed Oppenheimer from the H bomb project.
(d) Had Oppenheimer exchanged for American agents.

15. What happened after Eisenhower requested American scientists have access to more test sites in Soviet Russia?
(a) Khrushchev accepted the request.
(b) Khrushchev stopped the conference.
(c) Stalin threatened Eisenhower.
(d) Poutin stopped the conference.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eisenhower vow to uphold in the civil rights movement?

2. What situation required Eisenhower's attention during his 1956 campaign?

3. What Iranian prime minister did Eisenhower conflict with?

4. Who announced his intention not to run for President again?

5. What did Arkansas do with Central High School in the fall of 1959?

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