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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Eisenhower in September 1955?
(a) Eisenhower had a stroke.
(b) Eisenhower had a heart attack.
(c) Eisenhower broke his arm.
(d) Eisenhower broke his leg.

2. What did Eisenhower feel about other possible presidential contenders?
(a) They did not know the Russians like he did.
(b) They could use the atom bomb too easily.
(c) They could not beat Nixon.
(d) They were not smart enough to be president.

3. What agency did Eisenhower decide to create?
(a) NORAD.
(b) CIA.
(c) SAC.
(d) NASA.

4. What Iranian prime minister did Eisenhower conflict with?
(a) Said.
(b) Algemabad.
(c) Hiristanish.
(d) Mossadegh.

5. What did Eisenhower do during Nixon's campaign for President?
(a) He fully endorsed him.
(b) He endorsed his opponent.
(c) He refused to endorse him.
(d) He refused to get involved.

6. What happened in Russia in late 1957?
(a) They sent a dog to space.
(b) They sent Sputnik into orbit.
(c) They sent a man to space.
(d) The detonated their first H bomb.

7. What did Eisenhower come to the conclusion of concerning the H bomb?
(a) Oppenheimer stalled its development.
(b) Oppenheimer did his best.
(c) Oppenheimer hid the results of the project.
(d) Oppenheimer sold secrets to the Russians.

8. What did people have trouble comprehending, according to Eisenhower?
(a) The complexity of an atomic bomb.
(b) The power of atomic weapons.
(c) What acceptable losses meant.
(d) What M.A.D. was.

9. What did Eisenhower promise the American people in 1951 if he was elected, according to Chapter 13?
(a) To repeal segregation.
(b) To win the Korean War.
(c) To go to Korea to make peace.
(d) To bolster the aid to France in Indochina.

10. What would the Republicans have preferred instead of an armistice?
(a) Install a dictatorial regime in South Korea.
(b) A victory.
(c) Continuing the war.
(d) Withdrawal; but continue funding South Korea.

11. What situation required Eisenhower's attention during his 1956 campaign?
(a) The Yom Kippur War.
(b) The invasion of Aifa.
(c) Mer el Kebir.
(d) The Suez Canal crisis.

12. What was Eisenhower's last order to his son and grandson?
(a) To close his eyes.
(b) To lift him to a sitting position.
(c) To leave the room.
(d) To scatter his ashes at sea.

13. What simple things did Eisenhower need to relearn?
(a) Not asking for the impossible.
(b) Dialing a phone and typing.
(c) Not barking orders.
(d) Telling the truth.

14. What did Eisenhower refuse to do for the French?
(a) Intervene in their internal affairs.
(b) Give them the back section of a submarine.
(c) Use the H Bomb on Vietnam.
(d) Intervene in Algeria.

15. What did Eisenhower try to convince Nixon of?
(a) Run for President.
(b) Give the money he stole back.
(c) Take himself off the 1956 ticket.
(d) Abandon politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Arkansas do in September 1958 after the National Guard was recalled?

2. Who jumped in the Presidential race of 1969?

3. What was the topic of the conference in which the Russians agreed to participate in 1958?

4. How much surplus did the U.S. have in 1960?

5. How did Nixon respond to Eisenhower's request concerning the 1956 election?

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