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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Isaacson report that John McCloy called, "Something that is worse than anything probably that ever happened in the world"?
(a) The death of Franklin Roosevelt.
(b) The devastation caused to Germany from WWII.
(c) The rift that was coming between the Soviet Union and the United States.
(d) The dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima.

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

4. Under what circumstances did Robert Lovett claim to Isaacson that he met the Harriman Family?
(a) He met the Harriman Family as he was moving to attend Yale Univeristy.
(b) He met the Harriman Family on a Transatlantic cruise on his way to France.
(c) Lovett's father's private rail car was coupled onto E. H. Harriman's private train.
(d) He met the Harriman Family while he visited his father's office with the Union Pacific Railroad.

5. What position did the "Wise Man" who implemented the Lend Lease program eventually take in the Roosevelt administration?
(a) Assistant Secretary of War.
(b) Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.
(c) Secretary of Commerce.
(d) Under Secretary of State.

6. What agreement does Isaacson record Roosevelt and Churchill made during their initial meeting after America's entry into WWII?
(a) The Atlantic Charter.
(b) Lend Lease.
(c) NATO.
(d) The Non Aggression Pact.

7. According to Isaacson, how did Harriman respond to Stalin's shifting demeanor?
(a) Harriman was indifferent and held to his mission.
(b) Harriman was dismayed and threatened to leave.
(c) Harriman was confused and called Washington for advice.
(d) Harriman was blunt and counseled patience.

8. What does Isaacson claim to be the most elite club at Yale?
(a) DKE.
(b) Ivy.
(c) Scroll and Key.
(d) Skull and Bones.

9. Where did Chip Bohlen grow up, according to Isaacson?
(a) New York City.
(b) Grindstone Island, New York.
(c) Paris.
(d) Aiken, South Carolina.

10. Who was the State Department's Liaison with the White House during the transfer of power from Roosevelt to Truman?
(a) Dean Acheson.
(b) John McCloy.
(c) Charles Bohlen.
(d) George Kennan.

11. Where does Isaacson claim Averell Harriman was when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
(a) He was at his desk in the War Department.
(b) He was having a picnic with his wife at his Maryland farm.
(c) He was visiting Winston Churchill in his country home in Chequers.
(d) He was in a movie house wathcing Ninotchka.

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

13. Which of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson report to have negotiated trade deals with leaders of the communist government in Russia in 1922?
(a) Robert Lovett.
(b) Averell Harriman.
(c) Dean Acheson.
(d) Chip Bohlen.

14. With whom did John McCloy and Robert Lovett serve as advisers to the Secretary of War, according to Isaacson?
(a) McGeorge Bundy and Henry Stimson.
(b) Dean Acheson and Averell Harriman.
(c) Robert Patterson and Harvey Bundy.
(d) George Marshall and Erskine Hawkins.

15. What does Isaacson suggest started becoming a concern to the six "Wise Men" shortly after WWII began?
(a) "Stalin could be blunt, but then so could Harriman."
(b) "America's stormy relationship with her Soviet Allies."
(c) "In public...Roosevelt would henceforth proclaim that the Atlantic Charter...was the foundaton of American foreign policy."
(d) "Isolationist directing public policy placed America in peril during the early months of the war."

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Isaacson, who was the President of the United States who thought Russia could be an ally after WWII?

2. Under which president did Dean Acheson serve in the Attorney General's office?

3. What does Isaacson claim to have been America's foreign policy following WWI?

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

5. What does Isaacson claim to be Harriman's first crusade in his role with the Roosevelt Administration?

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