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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Isaacson report that Averell Harriman's support for the successful presidential candidacy of Franklin Roosevelt was rewarded in 1932?
(a) Roosevelt named him the Chief Administrative officer of the National Recovery Administration.
(b) Roosevelt named him the Ambassador to Russia.
(c) Roosevelt named him Secretary of State.
(d) Roosevelt named him the head of the Council on Foreign Relations.

2. What does Isaacson claim to be the goal of the "Wise Men"?
(a) To limit the spread of Soviet Communism.
(b) To rebuild Europe after WWII.
(c) To expand the authority of the Federal Reserve Bank over the monetary policy.
(d) To scale government back to the limits of the Constitution.

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

4. Who convinced one of the "Wise Men" to stop doing business with the Russian communists, according to Isaacson?
(a) Charles DeGaul.
(b) Calvin Coolidge.
(c) Winston Churchill.
(d) Franklin Roosevelt.

5. What two post-secondary schools does Isaacson report George Kennan attended?
(a) St. Johns Military Academy and Princeton.
(b) Yale and Oxford.
(c) Columbia and Harvard.
(d) Princeton and Oxford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances did Robert Lovett claim to Isaacson that he met the Harriman Family?

2. 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?

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

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

5. What exclusive club did Chip Bohlen join at Harvard according to Isaacson?

(see the answer key)

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