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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

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 Secretary of State.
(b) Roosevelt named him the Chief Administrative officer of the National Recovery Administration.
(c) Roosevelt named him the head of the Council on Foreign Relations.
(d) Roosevelt named him the Ambassador to Russia.

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

3. What does Isaacson report to be a weakness Bohlen exhibited in the execution of his profession?
(a) His penmanship was poor and he never learned to type.
(b) His poor manners offended the keepers of protocol.
(c) He was often too risky with investor's funds.
(d) His social proclivities caused embarrasments for other Administration officials.

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

5. What was the focus of the agreement after the initial meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill, according to Isaacson?
(a) Neither Britain nor the U.S. would attack each other or allies of each.
(b) The nations of Western Europe would join in alliance to protect each other against intrusions from communist nations.
(c) The United States would provide England with resources and war material at very favorable terms.
(d) Free trade and free people and self-determination for all nations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Isaacson claim Averell Harriman and Dean Acheson first met?

2. What does Isaacson claim to be the purpose of the club that Bohlen joined?

3. According to Isaacson, what event took place between Harriman and the person with whom he was sharing responsibility that foreshadowed the role of the two countries they represented in their places in Western leadership?

4. With what investment house did Isaacson claim Averell Harriman merged W.A. Harriman & Co.?

5. Isaacson reports which "Wise Man" worked to implement Franklin Roosevelt's Lend Lease program?

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