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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4 Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a dollar-a-year man?
(a) A man whose only worth was one dollar
(b) A man who stole one dollar per day from the government
(c) A businessman who kept his original salary from his company and worked for the government for a token small salary, all for the war effort.
(d) A man whose only income was one dollar

2. How were Truman's ancestors related to the bushwhackers?
(a) There was no connection
(b) Bess's marriage to Harry
(c) Through Jim Crow Chiles
(d) Through Uncle Harrison

3. What interest did Harry and his father share?
(a) Politics
(b) Woodworking
(c) Fishing and hunting
(d) Watching tv

4. Who was employed to work for Harry Truman, in his office, for a $2500 annual salary?
(a) Bess Truman
(b) John Truman
(c) His mother
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt

5. What party did Truman belong to?
(a) Democratic
(b) Republican
(c) Whig
(d) Green Party

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose appointment to Truman's cabinet made a positive and calming effect?

2. What was Independence Missouri's nickname in the 1840s?

3. What questionable organization was Truman encouraged to join by his party?

4. What political party did Harry, his father, and most of the adults in Independence belong to?

5. Which of Roosevelt's policies did Truman support the most enthusiastically?

(see the answer key)

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