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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who encouraged the United States to rearm and come out of what Isaacson claims to be a period of isolationism following WWI?
(a) John McCloy.
(b) Henry Stimson.
(c) Dean Acheson.
(d) Averell Harriman.

2. When did Averell Harriman join the most elite club at Yale according to Isaacson?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1914.

3. Who does Isaacson report chose Kennan and Bohlen for service in the American Embassy in Moscow?
(a) President Franklin Roosevelt.
(b) The American Ambassador to Russia, William Bullitt.
(c) Secretary of State Elihu Root.
(d) Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson.

4. Who was the Supreme Court Justice for whom Dean Acheson clerked?
(a) William Howard Taft.
(b) Louis Brandeis.
(c) Mahlon Pitney.
(d) James Clark McReynolds.

5. Where did John McCloy attend College according to Isaacson?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Yale.
(c) Amherst.
(d) Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isaacson claim to be Bohlen's view of Bolshevism?

2. Which president does Isaacson report Dean Acheson served as Assistant Secretary of State?

3. What does Isaacson report to be the legacy of Harvard's President Charles Elliot after his 40 year tenure ended in 1909?

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

5. Which of the six "Wise Men" does Isaacson report Roosevelt's Secretary of War asked to work on German espionage?

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