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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the Supreme Court Justice for whom Dean Acheson clerked?
(a) William Howard Taft.
(b) Mahlon Pitney.
(c) James Clark McReynolds.
(d) Louis Brandeis.

2. With whom does Isaacson report Harriman shared responsibility that came to him after the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill?
(a) Robert Lovett.
(b) John McCloy.
(c) Admiral William Standley.
(d) Lord Beaverbrook, Churchill's Minister of Supply.

3. What event does Isaacson suggest brought calls to come out of its isolationism following WWI?
(a) The spread of Nazism across Europe.
(b) Japanese Imperialism through the Far East.
(c) The Stalinist purges in Russia.
(d) The rise of Italian Fascism.

4. Who wrote the top-secret "recommendations for the use of nuclear weapons"?
(a) Douglas MacArthur.
(b) J. Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) Colonel Paul Tibbets.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isaacson suggest started becoming a concern to the six "Wise Men" shortly after WWII began?

2. What does Isaacson claim to be the reason that Harriman and Dean Acheson supported making post-war loans to the Soviets?

3. Who was the State Department's Liaison with the White House during the transfer of power from Roosevelt to Truman?

4. Who does Isaacson report to be the U.S. ambassador to Russia immediately after WWII?

5. What Assistant Secretary of War does Isaacson cite as fearing American isolationism after WWII?

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