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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What promotion did Truman give Eisenhower?
(a) General of the Army.
(b) General of the Armies.
(c) Chief of Staff.
(d) General.

2. What did Montgomery and Brooks think of Eisenhower?
(a) He was a good man.
(b) He was the right man for the job.
(c) He was incompetent.
(d) He was not the right man for the job.

3. What did Eisenhower think of his new role as president?
(a) He had mix feelings about it.
(b) He could not wait to be back to civilian life again.
(c) He hated it.
(d) He loved it.

4. What did Eisenhower do for the first time, at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) Met F.D. Roosevelt.
(b) Visited London.
(c) Led troops into battle.
(d) Went to France.

5. What did Chapter 9 say Eisenhower was bombarded with since the end of the war?
(a) Death threats.
(b) Love letters.
(c) Requests for interviews.
(d) Requests to run for president.

6. When was Eisenhower supposed to leave for France in 1918?
(a) November 18.
(b) October 6.
(c) May 12.
(d) January 26.

7. Who did Chapter 5 say wanted to claim victory in France as his own alone?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) De Gaulle.
(c) Patton.
(d) Bradley.

8. What did people start to doubt about Eisenhower at the end of Chapter 12?
(a) His birth place.
(b) His math skills.
(c) His sanity.
(d) His loyalty.

9. What did Truman want to propose to Eisenhower before discovering his political loyalties?
(a) To replace Nixon as vice president.
(b) To run as Eisenhower's vice president.
(c) To have Eisenhower run as his vice president.
(d) To have John F. Kennedy run with Eisenhower.

10. What was more important than being right, according to Eisenhower in Chapter 5?
(a) Liberation of France.
(b) The good relationship with Montgomery.
(c) Getting to Berlin before the Russians.
(d) His friendship with Patton.

11. How did Eisenhower react to President Truman's request?
(a) He was thrilled.
(b) He was concerned.
(c) He was disgusted.
(d) He was saddened.

12. Who represented Eisenhower's main challenge at the start of his presidency?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) MacArthur.
(c) Joe McCarthy.
(d) Harry Truman.

13. Who worked to have Eisenhower's son, John, come back for his father's inauguration?
(a) President Truman.
(b) The Chief of Staff of President Truman.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Eisenhower himself.

14. What was everyone looking for Eisenhower to do in 1948?
(a) Run for President.
(b) Make peace with Stalin.
(c) Retire.
(d) Win the Korean War.

15. What was over at the start of Chapter 8?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) The Korean War.
(c) The Panama Crisis.
(d) World War II.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Eisenhower trust too much, according to Chapter 7?

2. When did the invasion of France finally occur?

3. How did Eisenhower finish the school?

4. What was burned at one point of Eisenhower's first term?

5. What did Eisenhower do for Kay, according to Chapter 8?

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