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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. How did George Kennan develop his connection to Russia according to Isaacson?
(a) By reading War and Peace.
(b) By studying Russian in Paris.
(c) By studying under Russian professors who were experts in the Czarist era.
(d) By working with Russian ambassadors to Germany.

2. Isaacson reports that Averell Harriman took what position in the Roosevelt Administration?
(a) Transportation adviser for the new National Defense Advisory Commission.
(b) Assistant director to the Federal Reserve.
(c) Assistant Secretary of War.
(d) Railroad advisor to the Department of Commerce.

3. What did Isaacson claim to be Kennan's strong areas in his training?
(a) Protocol and foreign cultures.
(b) International Law and German.
(c) International Law and economics.
(d) Language interpretation and religious studies.

4. What Assistant Secretary of War does Isaacson cite as fearing American isolationism after WWII?
(a) Dean Acheson.
(b) Robert Lovett.
(c) Averell Harriman.
(d) John McCloy.

5. What quality made Lovett and McCloy influential insiders, according to Isaacson?
(a) Their efficient methods of researching and writing reports.
(b) The informal social networks they had formed.
(c) Their intimate friendships with President Franklin Roosevelt.
(d) Their overseas experiences with world leaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did John McCloy and Robert Lovett serve as advisers to the Secretary of War, according to Isaacson?

2. What position did the "Wise Man" who implemented the Lend Lease program eventually take in the Roosevelt administration?

3. 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?

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. For what purpose had Robert Lovett's father been grooming him and Averell Harriman since their graduation from college, according to Isaacson?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. How did Averell Harriman and Robert Lovett come to work together after WWI, according to Isaacson?

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

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

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

7. What does Issacson suggest comes between 20th century isolationism and a utopian dream of a world order based on international law?

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

9. What does Isaacson identify as the major issues facing Harry Truman during the first month of his presidency after the death of President Roosevelt?

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

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