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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who encouraged the United States to rearm and come out of what Isaacson claims to be a period of isolationism following WWI?
(a) John McCloy.
(b) Averell Harriman.
(c) Dean Acheson.
(d) Henry Stimson.

2. What does Isaacson claim to be the most elite club at Yale?
(a) Scroll and Key.
(b) DKE.
(c) Skull and Bones.
(d) Ivy.

3. What does Isaacson claim to have been America's foreign policy following WWI?
(a) Non-interventionism.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Interventionism.
(d) Nation building.

4. What does Isaacson report to be the differences between the negotiating styles of Roosevelt and Truman?
(a) Roosevelt was high strung, but Truman was contemplative.
(b) Roosevelt eschewed advice, but Truman ruled by consensus.
(c) Roosevelt was indifferent, but Truman was sensitive.
(d) Roosevelt could be manipulative and conniving with people and public opinion, but Truman was forthright to the point of bluntness.

5. What event does Isaacson claim caused tension between the U.S., Britain, and their Soviet Allies?
(a) Harriman discovered that Stalin was conducting back channel negotiations with Hitler.
(b) Harriman discovered his private quarters had been bugged by Stalin.
(c) The discovery of a mass grave of 10,000 Polish officers who had been summarily executed by the Red Army after the Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact of 1939.
(d) Roosevelt discovered that Stalin had placed spies throughout his administration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isaacson report to be the legacy of Harvard's President Charles Elliot after his 40 year tenure ended in 1909?

2. How does Isaacson claim Bohlen distinguished himself in the service of his first assignment?

3. Which of the six "Wise Men" does Isaacson report Roosevelt's Secretary of War asked to work on German espionage?

4. Who does Isaacson report chose Kennan and Bohlen for service in the American Embassy in Moscow?

5. Who was the Supreme Court Justice for whom Dean Acheson clerked?

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