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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Isaacson claim Averell Harriman began to accept of America's role in the world during the 1970's?
(a) He had come to accept that American interventionism had placed undue burden on the working middle class.
(b) He had come to accept the role of the foreign policy elite in converting the American free enterprise system into a regimented and overtaxed corporate system.
(c) He had come to accept the limits of intervention.
(d) He had come to accept that he and the other "Wise Men" had a unique appointment with destiny that changed the world.

2. Which two of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson claim understood the importance of trade and global involvement from their careers on Wall Street?
(a) John McCloy and Dean Acheson.
(b) Averell Harriman and Robert Lovett.
(c) Chip Bohlen and Robert Lovett.
(d) George Kennan and Dean Acheson.

3. What does Isaacson report to be Dean Acheson's view of Congress' involvement in presidential foreign policy decisions regarding Vietnam?
(a) Acheson believed that congressional involvement in foreign affairs would kill democracy.
(b) Acheson was appalled that a domestic legislative body felt itself qualified to influence such delicate relationships with people of whom it was ignorant.
(c) Acheson was outraged that Congress should dare to interfere with the foreign policy preogative of the Executive.
(d) Acheson was encouraged that representative government could take such an active role for the defense of the interests of the country internationally.

4. How does Isaacson detail how the last of the "Six Wise Men" whom President-Elect Kennedy called affected Kennedy's decision for Secretary of State?
(a) He detailed how each of his candidates had helped to direct the policies that were made to confront the Soviet menace in the immediate period following WWII.
(b) He rejected Kennedy's offer for the position.
(c) He suggested that President-Elect Kennedy read an article in Foreign Affairs that one of the candidates for Secretary of State wrote.
(d) He wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times expressing the qualities of Kennedy's eventual nominee.

5. When does Isaacson report communist North Korea invaded South Korea?
(a) June 25, 1959.
(b) June 24, 1950.
(c) June 6, 1944.
(d) June 6, 1949.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Isaacson suggest that President Kennedy hoped to avoid war in Laos?

2. What was the only concession the Japanese requested for its surrender to end WWII, according to Isaacson?

3. What does Isaacson report to be the legacy of Harvard's President Charles Elliot after his 40 year tenure ended in 1909?

4. What does Isaacson claim to be the the Soviet's view of keeping security?

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

(see the answer key)

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