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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5 Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Canol Project?
(a) A scheme to build a four inch pipeline from Canada to Alaska
(b) The atom bomb
(c) A plan for a large dam on the Canol River
(d) A plan to end hunger in America using cooking oil

2. Who was the leader of the Dixiecrats?
(a) Strom Thurmond
(b) Adlai Stevenson
(c) Henry Wallace
(d) Jefferson Davis

3. In later years, how does Harry describe his childhood?
(a) filled with poverty and need
(b) He could not remember his chidlhood
(c) One misery after another
(d) The happiest imaginable

4. What was one voting faction in this election that had never been involved in presidential elections before?
(a) Jews were allowed to vote
(b) Women were allowed to vote
(c) Blacks were allowed to vote.
(d) Family pets, if pedigreed, were allowed to vote

5. What was Truman's primary goal of the Potsdam Conference?
(a) To get Stalin to commit to entering the war against Japan
(b) To tell the other countries about the atom bomb
(c) To see Europe for free
(d) To find an excuse to use the atom bomb

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Turnip Congress? .

2. What weapon is Truman encouraged to authorize to end the Korean Conflict?

3. What kind of automobile does Harry Truman first purchase?

4. What were the nicknames for the divisions in the Missouri Democratic Party?

5. Who was the most influential new friend Truman gained during his first term as Senator?

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