View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What political movement did Bohlen defend to his classmates?
(a) Cobdenite free traders.
(b) Russia's Bolshevik Revolution.
(c) Labor Unionists.
(d) Corporate fascism.

2. What event does Isaacson suggest brought calls to come out of its isolationism following WWI?
(a) The rise of Italian Fascism.
(b) The spread of Nazism across Europe.
(c) Japanese Imperialism through the Far East.
(d) The Stalinist purges in Russia.

3. What does Isaacson claim to be the most elite club at Yale?
(a) Scroll and Key.
(b) Ivy.
(c) DKE.
(d) Skull and Bones.

4. Where does Isaacson claim George Kennan served the government in lieu of paying the expenses of attending law school?
(a) The Supreme Court.
(b) The State Department.
(c) The War Department.
(d) The Foreign Service.

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?
(a) 1:11.
(b) 110:16.
(c) 110:160.
(d) 16:110.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Isaacson report to have been the vice president the W. A. Harriman investment firm?

2. Who encouraged the United States to rearm and come out of what Isaacson claims to be a period of isolationism following WWI?

3. How did John McCloy come into contact with Averell Harriman and Robert Lovett?

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

5. What does Isaacson claim the Secretary of War called Lovett and McCloy?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 276 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample