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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role did Frank Wisner play in Kennan's plans for confronting Soviet expansionism?
(a) He became a European mediator between activists and their targets.
(b) He became the congressional liaison for the Truman Administration informing it of Congress' mood for the international activities to contain communism.
(c) He ran the "Department of Dirty Tricks" within the CIA.
(d) He became a policy director for the Truman Administration in its effort to discover communist subversion activities.

2. When had Dean Acheson worked with Secretary of State George Marshall, prior to Marshall's appointment to the State Department, according to Isaacson?
(a) During a campaign to shake America out of its post WWI "isolationism."
(b) In China to mediate an end to the civil war between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse Tung.
(c) As a clerk to Supreme Court Justice William Howard Taft.
(d) While he was on the Yale crew coached by Averell Harriman.

3. Who did President Eisenhower choose for his Ambassador to Russia, according to Isaacson?
(a) Dean Acheson.
(b) Chip Bohlen.
(c) George Kennan.
(d) Averell Harriman.

4. What State Department official does Isaacson report to have been determined to bring the United States into a "Western Union" military alliance?
(a) Donald Maclean.
(b) John Hickerson.
(c) Theodore Achilles.
(d) Robert Lovett.

5. After Roosevelt and Churchill made their agreement, what became the responsibility of Averell Harriman?
(a) To travel to Moscow to offer aid to the government of the Soviet Union in their confrontation against Germany.
(b) To direct the formation of foreign policy from Washington.
(c) To direct the shift in the balance of power between England and the United States.
(d) To act as a strong man against Stalin's bluntness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Isaacson claim to be the most elite club at Yale?

3. What does Isaacson write of what became of the "Six Wise Men" after Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president in 1952?

4. What does Isaacson report that President Truman did to decide America's response to the Soviet Union's possession of nuclear weapons?

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

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