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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 claim to be the goal of the "Wise Men"?
(a) To expand the authority of the Federal Reserve Bank over the monetary policy.
(b) To scale government back to the limits of the Constitution.
(c) To rebuild Europe after WWII.
(d) To limit the spread of Soviet Communism.

2. Who does Isaacson report to have been the vice president the W. A. Harriman investment firm?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) Prescott Bush, father of former President George H.W. Bush.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Franklin Roosevelt.

3. Where does Isaacson claim Averell Harriman was when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
(a) He was visiting Winston Churchill in his country home in Chequers.
(b) He was having a picnic with his wife at his Maryland farm.
(c) He was at his desk in the War Department.
(d) He was in a movie house wathcing Ninotchka.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the ratio of students who passed the training for Kennan's chosen field to those who took the course, according to Isaacson?

2. Who coined the term "Iron Curtain" in a cable to President Truman?

3. What was Bohlen's first assignment after he completed training in his field, according to Issacson?

4. What quality of Truman's does Isaacson claim was welcomed by the liaison between the State Department and the White House ?

5. Who was the Supreme Court Justice for whom Dean Acheson clerked?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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 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?

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

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