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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Isaacson claim to be Bohlen's view of Bolshevism?
(a) He was fascinated by the tenants of Soviet Communism.
(b) He was nonjudgemental and unreflective about Bolshevism.
(c) He saw Bolshevism to be a threat to liberal progressivism in Western nations.
(d) He reviled in the violent destruction Bolsheviks were willing to employ to hold onto power.

2. What was the focus of the agreement after the initial meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill, according to Isaacson?
(a) Free trade and free people and self-determination for all nations.
(b) The nations of Western Europe would join in alliance to protect each other against intrusions from communist nations.
(c) Neither Britain nor the U.S. would attack each other or allies of each.
(d) The United States would provide England with resources and war material at very favorable terms.

3. What does Isaacson report Vice President Harry Truman was doing when news of President Roosevelt's death was first leaked?
(a) Truman was in the Vice President's office adjacent to the Senate floor preparing to go home for the evening.
(b) Truman was in a foreign policy briefing with the Council of Foreign Relations.
(c) Truman was having dinner with his family as was his custom at that time of the day.
(d) Truman was in Sam Rayburn's hideaway in the Capitol Building playing cards.

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

5. What was Bohlen's first assignment after he completed training in his field, according to Issacson?
(a) He was made partner with W.A. Harriman & Co.
(b) He was posted in Prague.
(c) He was assigned Under Secretary of the National Recovery Administration.
(d) He was given a seat on the board of directors of the Union Pacific Railway.

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

7. What does Isaacson claim the six men profiled in The Wise Men represent?
(a) New Democrats.
(b) Moderate Republicans.
(c) The American Establishment.
(d) Ivy League colleges.

8. What is the reason Isaacson suggests that John McCLoy's mother encouraged him to tutor children of her wealthy clients during summers away from school?
(a) It was his mother's way of assuring he would make the right social contacts.
(b) So he could be networking for a good career.
(c) Because he would be better able to continue his advanced studies while working with younger children.
(d) Because the pay was better than taking one of the part-time jobs in the city.

9. Where did John McCloy attend College according to Isaacson?
(a) Amherst.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

10. Which of the "Wise Men's" father does Isaacson claim worked for E.H. Harriman with Union Pacific Rail Road?
(a) Averell Harriman.
(b) Dean Acheson.
(c) Chip Bohlen.
(d) Robert Lovett.

11. What quality of Truman's does Isaacson claim was welcomed by the liaison between the State Department and the White House ?
(a) Truman's forthrightness.
(b) Truman's common perspective.
(c) Truman's predictability.
(d) Truman's willingness to accept counsel.

12. What does Isaacson claim the Secretary of War called Lovett and McCloy?
(a) "Two of a kind."
(b) "The Minnesota Twins."
(c) "The Heavenly Twins."
(d) "The Dynamic Duo."

13. According to Isaacson, who was the President of the United States who thought Russia could be an ally after WWII?
(a) Adalai Stevenson.
(b) Harry Truman.
(c) Franklin Roosevelt.
(d) Dwight Eisenhower.

14. Who convinced one of the "Wise Men" to stop doing business with the Russian communists, according to Isaacson?
(a) Calvin Coolidge.
(b) Charles DeGaul.
(c) Winston Churchill.
(d) Franklin Roosevelt.

15. 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 in a movie house wathcing Ninotchka.
(c) He was having a picnic with his wife at his Maryland farm.
(d) He was visiting Winston Churchill in his country home in Chequers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What event does Isaacson suggest brought calls to come out of its isolationism following WWI?

5. Isaacson reports which "Wise Man" worked to implement Franklin Roosevelt's Lend Lease program?

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