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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 does Isaacson report to be the differences between the negotiating styles of Roosevelt and Truman?
(a) Roosevelt was indifferent, but Truman was sensitive.
(b) Roosevelt eschewed advice, but Truman ruled by consensus.
(c) Roosevelt could be manipulative and conniving with people and public opinion, but Truman was forthright to the point of bluntness.
(d) Roosevelt was high strung, but Truman was contemplative.

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

3. What event does Isaacson claim caused tension between the U.S., Britain, and their Soviet Allies?
(a) Harriman discovered that Stalin was conducting back channel negotiations with Hitler.
(b) The discovery of a mass grave of 10,000 Polish officers who had been summarily executed by the Red Army after the Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact of 1939.
(c) Harriman discovered his private quarters had been bugged by Stalin.
(d) Roosevelt discovered that Stalin had placed spies throughout his administration.

4. What event does Isaacson suggest brought calls to come out of its isolationism following WWI?
(a) The Stalinist purges in Russia.
(b) The rise of Italian Fascism.
(c) The spread of Nazism across Europe.
(d) Japanese Imperialism through the Far East.

5. Which of the "Wise Men" does Isaacson report to be the son of a wealthy railway tycoon?
(a) Robert Lovett.
(b) Chip Bohlen.
(c) Averell Harriman.
(d) Dean Acheson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What political movement did Bohlen defend to his classmates?

2. What Assistant Secretary of War does Isaacson cite as fearing American isolationism after WWII?

3. Where does Isaacson claim Averell Harriman and Dean Acheson first met?

4. With what investment house did Isaacson claim Averell Harriman merged W.A. Harriman & Co.?

5. What two post-secondary schools does Isaacson report George Kennan attended?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the circumstances through which John McCloy came into contact with Averell Harriman and Robert Lovett after WWI, according to Isaacson?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Which of the "Six Wise Men" does Isaacson indicate attended Harvard Law School?

8. What does Isaacson claim to be the "warning" issued through the Potsdam proclamation by the Allied Powers to Japan regarding the dropping of the atomic bomb?

9. What experience in John McCloy's background does Isaacson claim gave McCloy the exposure to Henry Stimson that eventually led to McCloy's appointment to the Department of War as a special consultant on German espionage?

10. What kind of jobs did John McCloy's mother find for him during his youth, according to Isaacson?

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