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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. Who encouraged the United States to rearm and come out of what Isaacson claims to be a period of isolationism following WWI?
(a) Dean Acheson.
(b) Averell Harriman.
(c) Henry Stimson.
(d) John McCloy.

2. 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) George Marshall and Erskine Hawkins.
(c) Robert Patterson and Harvey Bundy.
(d) Dean Acheson and Averell Harriman.

3. Isaacson reports which "Wise Man" worked to implement Franklin Roosevelt's Lend Lease program?
(a) John McCloy.
(b) Henry Stimson.
(c) George Kennan.
(d) Dean Acheson.

4. What was the ratio of students who passed the training for Kennan's chosen field to those who took the course, according to Isaacson?
(a) 1:11.
(b) 110:16.
(c) 16:110.
(d) 110:160.

5. Which president does Isaacson report Dean Acheson served as Assistant Secretary of State?
(a) Franklin Roosevelt.
(b) Harry Truman.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Isaacson report to have been the vice president the W. A. Harriman investment firm?

2. What does Isaacson report Vice President Harry Truman was doing when news of President Roosevelt's death was first leaked?

3. What does Isaacson claim to be the goal of the "Wise Men"?

4. According to Isaacson, what event took place between Harriman and the person with whom he was sharing responsibility that foreshadowed the role of the two countries they represented in their places in Western leadership?

5. Under whom does Isaacson report Kennan studied for his chosen field?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Which of the "Six Wise Men" attended Yale, according to Isaacson?

3. What military action did Joseph Stalin demand from his British and American allies once the United States entered WWII, according to Isaacson?

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

5. What does Isaacson report to be the difference between George Kennan's approach to training for the foreign service and that of Chip Bohlen?

6. As the Allied powers began to close in on Germany, what does Isaacson expose to be the main concern of the British and American governments for the post-war era?

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

8. What was the title does Isaacson claims that John McCloy earned during his career in government and as a corporate lawyer?

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

10. What does Isaacson report to be Averell Harriman's first achievement after he was named as transportation adviser to the National Defense Advisory Commission by President Franklin Roosevelt?

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