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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What exclusive club did Chip Bohlen join at Harvard according to Isaacson?
(a) The Porcellian.
(b) Skull and Bones.
(c) The Harvard Lampoon.
(d) Sphinx-Kalumet Club.

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) George Kennan and Dean Acheson.
(b) Averell Harriman and Robert Lovett.
(c) John McCloy and Dean Acheson.
(d) Chip Bohlen and Robert Lovett.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John McCloy attend College according to Isaacson?

2. Where did Chip Bohlen grow up, according to Isaacson?

3. Who was the State Department's Liaison with the White House during the transfer of power from Roosevelt to Truman?

4. According to Isaacson, how did Harriman respond to Stalin's shifting demeanor?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Isaacson report Dean Acheson started his career after WWI?

2. Who does Isaacson identify as the two men that Secretary of War Henry Stimson called the "Heavenly Twins"?

3. How does Isaacson claim that Robert Lovett's father started in his work for E.H. Harriman?

4. Which of the "Six Wise Men" does Isaacson report came to know the family of another through his father's employment?

5. After WWI, how does Isaacson show Averell Harriman's process of making business deals with Leon Trotsky of Communist Russia?

6. What did Isaacson report regarding a meeting between Averell Harriman and Max Beaverbrook that foretold the change in the balance of power between England and the United States?

7. What were the roles of George Kennan and Chip Bohlen in President Franklin Roosevelt's successful effort to open official diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in 1933, according to Isaacson?

8. Why did Russian soldiers dismantle German factories and send the assets back to their homeland at the end of WWII according to Isaacson?

9. What does Isaacson claim motivated George Kennan to apply for a job with the foreign service?

10. What does Isaacson claim to be Averell Harriman's qualification for Skull and Bones?

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