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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Isaacson report to be the legacy of Harvard's President Charles Elliot after his 40 year tenure ended in 1909?
(a) "To allow each man to think and do as he pleases."
(b) "Our undisciplinables are our proudest product."
(c) "Living well is the best revenge."
(d) "Heresy has always been a Harvard institution."

2. Under what circumstances did Robert Lovett claim to Isaacson that he met the Harriman Family?
(a) Lovett's father's private rail car was coupled onto E. H. Harriman's private train.
(b) He met the Harriman Family as he was moving to attend Yale Univeristy.
(c) He met the Harriman Family on a Transatlantic cruise on his way to France.
(d) He met the Harriman Family while he visited his father's office with the Union Pacific Railroad.

3. What does Isaacson claim to have been America's foreign policy following WWI?
(a) Interventionism.
(b) Nation building.
(c) Isolationism.
(d) Non-interventionism.

4. Who does Isaacson report to be the U.S. ambassador to Russia immediately after WWII?
(a) John McCloy.
(b) Robert Lovett.
(c) George Kennan.
(d) Averell Harriman.

5. Which of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson report to have served in active service during WWI?
(a) John McCloy and Robert Lovett.
(b) Averell Harriman, George Kennan, and Dean Acheson.
(c) Chip Bohlen.
(d) Robert Lovett.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Chip Bohlen grow up, according to Isaacson?

2. What political movement did Bohlen defend to his classmates?

3. For what purpose had Robert Lovett's father been grooming him and Averell Harriman since their graduation from college, according to Isaacson?

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

5. Which of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson report to have negotiated trade deals with leaders of the communist government in Russia in 1922?

(see the answer key)

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