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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 does Isaacson report to be the differences between the negotiating styles of Roosevelt and Truman?
(a) Roosevelt was indifferent, but Truman was sensitive.
(b) Roosevelt could be manipulative and conniving with people and public opinion, but Truman was forthright to the point of bluntness.
(c) Roosevelt was high strung, but Truman was contemplative.
(d) Roosevelt eschewed advice, but Truman ruled by consensus.

2. Where does Isaacson claim Averell Harriman was when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
(a) He was visiting Winston Churchill in his country home in Chequers.
(b) He was at his desk in the War Department.
(c) He was in a movie house wathcing Ninotchka.
(d) He was having a picnic with his wife at his Maryland farm.

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

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

5. How does Isaacson report that Clark Clifford understood the rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had to be framed to make the general public support confronting the Communists?
(a) Clifford understood the rivalry had, "...to be framed as a contest between the forces of darkness and light."
(b) Clifford understood the rivalry had, "...to be framed as a potential threat to the freedom and security of every individual in the country."
(c) Clifford understood the rivalry had, "...to be framed as fearfully as possible to cajole the general public to put unquestioning support for the wisdom of its government."
(d) Clifford understood the rivalry had, "...to be framed as a personal cause of free American talent overcoming international slavery."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isaacson claim to be the most elite club at Yale?

2. What does Isaacson report to have been the reaction to communist tactics against the Marshall Plan?

3. How did Isaacson claim Acheson described the division of the world between the United States and the Soviet Union during the crisis facing Greece and Turkey?

4. What decision did Harriman influence Stalin to make, according to Isaacson, to get around the decision of Secretary Stettinius?

5. What was the ratio of students who passed the training for Kennan's chosen field to those who took the course, according to Isaacson?

(see the answer key)

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