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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Isaacson claim Averell Harriman and Dean Acheson first met?
(a) In Russia during WWII.
(b) In Paris.
(c) In New York City.
(d) At Groton Prep School.

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

5. Who does Isaacson report to have been the vice president the W. A. Harriman investment firm?
(a) Franklin Roosevelt.
(b) Prescott Bush, father of former President George H.W. Bush.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Harry Truman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson report to be the son of a wealthy railway tycoon?

3. In what town does Isaacson claim that George Kennan was born?

4. 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?

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

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