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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason Isaacson suggests that John McCLoy's mother encouraged him to tutor children of her wealthy clients during summers away from school?
(a) It was his mother's way of assuring he would make the right social contacts.
(b) So he could be networking for a good career.
(c) Because the pay was better than taking one of the part-time jobs in the city.
(d) Because he would be better able to continue his advanced studies while working with younger children.

2. What does Isaacson suggest to be one of the largest factors in America's rise to prominence after WWII?
(a) America's ability to be self-sufficient.
(b) America's size and population relative to most other countries.
(c) Britain's inability to support its empire.
(d) America's ability to convert consumer production to war production.

3. What position did the "Wise Man" who implemented the Lend Lease program eventually take in the Roosevelt administration?
(a) Under Secretary of State.
(b) Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.
(c) Assistant Secretary of War.
(d) Secretary of Commerce.

4. What exclusive club did Chip Bohlen join at Harvard according to Isaacson?
(a) Sphinx-Kalumet Club.
(b) The Porcellian.
(c) Skull and Bones.
(d) The Harvard Lampoon.

5. What does Isaacson define as the main political challenge to the Truman Administration encouraging Congress to support financial aid to Greece and Turkey?
(a) Congress was more interested in focusing on domestic issues than it was with foreign interventions.
(b) Americans had become weary of international interventions in the aftermath of WWII.
(c) Harry Truman had become politically unpopular since the Democrats lost their congressional majority during the 1946 mid-term elections.
(d) The elections of 1946 brought popular support to balancing budgets and ending foreign spending.

Short Answer Questions

1. What concern does Isaacson claim motivated Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson to encourage America's financial support for Greece?

2. Where did John McCloy attend College according to Isaacson?

3. When had Dean Acheson worked with Secretary of State George Marshall, prior to Marshall's appointment to the State Department, according to Isaacson?

4. Who coined the term "Iron Curtain" in a cable to President Truman?

5. What does Isaacson claim to be the purpose of the club that Bohlen joined?

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