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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what country did Bohlen become fascinated during late-night discussions at Harvard?
(a) Germany.
(b) Russia.
(c) China.
(d) Japan.

2. What does Isaacson claim to have been America's foreign policy following WWI?
(a) Nation building.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Non-interventionism.
(d) Interventionism.

3. What does Isaacson claim to be the purpose of the club that Bohlen joined?
(a) It was called a "waiting" club where members waited to be asked to join a more prestigious club.
(b) It was a "final club" for members who would join no others after coming into it.
(c) To serve as a place at which underclassmen could play rowdy poker games.
(d) To train underclassmen on their place on campus.

4. For what purpose had Robert Lovett's father been grooming him and Averell Harriman since their graduation from college, according to Isaacson?
(a) To help him run his investment banks.
(b) To help him run the Union Pacific railway empire.
(c) To move into foreign service for the government.
(d) To become new masters of the emerging high finance sector of the economy.

5. Where does Isaacson claim Averell Harriman and Dean Acheson first met?
(a) In New York City.
(b) In Paris.
(c) At Groton Prep School.
(d) In Russia during WWII.

6. How does Isaacson report that Averell Harriman's support for the successful presidential candidacy of Franklin Roosevelt was rewarded in 1932?
(a) Roosevelt named him the Ambassador to Russia.
(b) Roosevelt named him the head of the Council on Foreign Relations.
(c) Roosevelt named him Secretary of State.
(d) Roosevelt named him the Chief Administrative officer of the National Recovery Administration.

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

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

9. What two post-secondary schools does Isaacson report George Kennan attended?
(a) Princeton and Oxford.
(b) Yale and Oxford.
(c) St. Johns Military Academy and Princeton.
(d) Columbia and Harvard.

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

11. How did John McCloy come into contact with Averell Harriman and Robert Lovett?
(a) As an advisor with the War Department.
(b) While he was directing a law office in Paris.
(c) As a student at Harvard Law School.
(d) Through the law firm where John McCloy was employed.

12. What does Isaacson claim to be Harriman's first crusade in his role with the Roosevelt Administration?
(a) To make rail transportation the exclusive means of transporting military equipment within the U.S. borders.
(b) To encourage the Fed to make low interest loans to investment banks.
(c) To gain federal funding for expanded rail road construction.
(d) To encourage the government to help increase the nation's rail freight capabilities.

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

14. Who coined the term "Iron Curtain" in a cable to President Truman?
(a) Winston Churchill.
(b) George Kennan.
(c) Henry Stimson.
(d) John McCloy.

15. 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) Lovett's father's private rail car was coupled onto E. H. Harriman's private train.
(c) He met the Harriman Family while he visited his father's office with the Union Pacific Railroad.
(d) He met the Harriman Family on a Transatlantic cruise on his way to France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What decision did Harriman influence Stalin to make, according to Isaacson, to get around the decision of Secretary Stettinius?

2. What event early in WWII does Isaacson quote John McCloy as calling, "...regrettable in the clear light of perfect hindsight"?

3. With whom does Isaacson report Harriman shared responsibility that came to him after the meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill?

4. Who encouraged the United States to rearm and come out of what Isaacson claims to be a period of isolationism following WWI?

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

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