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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 Assistant Secretary of War does Isaacson cite as fearing American isolationism after WWII?
(a) Dean Acheson.
(b) John McCloy.
(c) Averell Harriman.
(d) Robert Lovett.

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

3. For what purpose had Robert Lovett's father been grooming him and Averell Harriman since their graduation from college, according to Isaacson?
(a) To move into foreign service for the government.
(b) To become new masters of the emerging high finance sector of the economy.
(c) To help him run his investment banks.
(d) To help him run the Union Pacific railway empire.

4. 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) "Heresy has always been a Harvard institution."
(c) "Living well is the best revenge."
(d) "Our undisciplinables are our proudest product."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the "Wise Men," according to Isaacson, attended The Hill School in Philadelphia?

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

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

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

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