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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What quality made Lovett and McCloy influential insiders, according to Isaacson?
(a) Their overseas experiences with world leaders.
(b) Their efficient methods of researching and writing reports.
(c) The informal social networks they had formed.
(d) Their intimate friendships with President Franklin Roosevelt.

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

3. What does Isaacson claim to the Lovett's and Harriman's most important innovation to the industry for which they were prepared by Judge Lovett?
(a) Developing streamlined diesel locomotives pulling sleek aluminum coaches.
(b) Using airplanes to quickly relay messages to ambassadors in foreign lands.
(c) Using ticker tape to relay changes in stock prices.
(d) Establishing radio relay stations to deliver messages to ambassadors in foreign lands.

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

5. Which of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson report to have negotiated trade deals with leaders of the communist government in Russia in 1922?
(a) Averell Harriman.
(b) Robert Lovett.
(c) Dean Acheson.
(d) Chip Bohlen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which president does Isaacson report Dean Acheson served as Assistant Secretary of State?

2. Where does Isaacson claim George Kennan served the government in lieu of paying the expenses of attending law school?

3. How did George Kennan develop his connection to Russia according to Isaacson?

4. What does Isaacson claim to be the goal of the "Wise Men"?

5. Where did Chip Bohlen grow up, according to Isaacson?

(see the answer key)

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