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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the senate hearing interviewing at the start of Chapter 14?
(a) Actors.
(b) Journalists.
(c) School teachers.
(d) Army personnel.

2. When did the British sign the cease fire in Egypt?
(a) The day of the 1956 presidential election.
(b) November 5, 1957.
(c) They never signed a cease fire.
(d) 2 days after Eisenhower was sworn into office.

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

4. What did the U.S. and the Soviets agree on at the end of the summit?
(a) Both countries could be destroyed if nuclear weapons were used.
(b) That Britain should not take sides for either of them.
(c) That France was a loose canon.
(d) That they did trust each other.

5. What did Eisenhower think of a nuclear exchange with the USSR?
(a) There was a 54% chance of a first strike destroying the USSR's capacity to retaliate.
(b) The U.S. could prevail with acceptable losses.
(c) No one could win.
(d) NATO could prevent Soviet retaliation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Eisenhower in November 1957, according to Chapter 19?

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

3. What simple things did Eisenhower need to relearn?

4. Who was next to Eisenhower at the end of his life?

5. How many heart attacks did Eisenhower suffer while hospitalized?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Eisenhower's main fear, in Chapter 15?

2. What happened about the Supreme Court ruling, in Chapter 16?

3. What happened during a U-2 flight prior to a summit in Paris?

4. What did Eisenhower tell Johnson?

5. What program did Eisenhower design, in Chapter 19?

6. In Chapter 18, why did Sputnik evoke fear in the American people?

7. What happened in September 1957 through September 1958?

8. What backfired, according to Chapter 18?

9. How did Eisenhower approach the arms race, in Chapter 13?

10. What happened in September 1955 and what did Eisenhower reconsider?

(see the answer keys)

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