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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Isaacson suggest to be the result of George Kennan's "Long Telegram"?
(a) It caused his old friend, Dean Acheson to advise him to discuss his ideas with him before he put things on paper.
(b) It made Kennan persona non grata to his superiors within the State Department.
(c) It formulated the containment theory which was embraced by Washington.
(d) It caused a harmful foreign policy debate within the Truman Administration that led to international paralysis.

3. What did Isaacson claim to be Kennan's strong areas in his training?
(a) International Law and economics.
(b) International Law and German.
(c) Language interpretation and religious studies.
(d) Protocol and foreign cultures.

4. Who encouraged the United States to rearm and come out of what Isaacson claims to be a period of isolationism following WWI?
(a) Henry Stimson.
(b) John McCloy.
(c) Dean Acheson.
(d) Averell Harriman.

5. What was the ratio of students who passed the training for Kennan's chosen field to those who took the course, according to Isaacson?
(a) 110:16.
(b) 16:110.
(c) 110:160.
(d) 1:11.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Soviet Union begin its "clampdown" on Czechoslovakia, according to Isaacson?

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

3. With whom did John McCloy and Robert Lovett serve as advisers to the Secretary of War, according to Isaacson?

4. What does Isaacson claim to be Bohlen's view of Bolshevism?

5. Where does Isaacson claim George Kennan served the government in lieu of paying the expenses of attending law school?

(see the answer key)

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