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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 was the State Department's Liaison with the White House during the transfer of power from Roosevelt to Truman?
(a) Dean Acheson.
(b) George Kennan.
(c) John McCloy.
(d) Charles Bohlen.

2. What does Isaacson suggest started becoming a concern to the six "Wise Men" shortly after WWII began?
(a) "In public...Roosevelt would henceforth proclaim that the Atlantic Charter...was the foundaton of American foreign policy."
(b) "America's stormy relationship with her Soviet Allies."
(c) "Isolationist directing public policy placed America in peril during the early months of the war."
(d) "Stalin could be blunt, but then so could Harriman."

3. What does Isaacson report to be the warning the Allied powers gave to the Japanese regarding the dropping of the atomic bomb?
(a) Ads placed in Japanese newspapers warning of coming destruction.
(b) Communiques made to Japanese leaders through their various channels of communication.
(c) A vague clue in the Potsdam proclamation describing "immeasurably greater" powers and that, "The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction."
(d) Radio interruptions of Japanese airwaves that warned the Japanese of America's possession of, "a weapon of mass destruction."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Isaacson report that John McCloy called, "Something that is worse than anything probably that ever happened in the world"?

3. What does Isaacson suggest was a practical challenge that Truman faced when he began his presidency?

4. What does Isaacson report to be the legacy of Harvard's President Charles Elliot after his 40 year tenure ended in 1909?

5. What does Isaacson claim the Secretary of War called Lovett and McCloy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were the major declarations of the Atlantic Charter, according to Isaacson?

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

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

5. What does Isaacson report to be a prerequisite for being tapped for Skull and Bones at Yale?

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

7. What does Isaacson report that George Kennan believed Marxism offered to Soviet Russian leaders?

8. 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?

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

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

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