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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4 Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are two traits Truman especially disliked about his fellow politicians?
(a) Loud talking and smoking
(b) Dishonesty and smoking
(c) Womanizing and corruption
(d) Drinking and playing cards

2. What new inventions did Truman never learn to use or like?
(a) Telephone and typewriter
(b) Telegraph and electric bulb
(c) Computer and cell phone
(d) Toilet and bathtub

3. Who was the leader of the Dixiecrats?
(a) Adlai Stevenson
(b) Jefferson Davis
(c) Strom Thurmond
(d) Henry Wallace

4. What questionable organization was Truman encouraged to join by his party?
(a) Republicans
(b) Ku Klux Klan
(c) NAACP
(d) Local country club

5. What is the name of the new organization of countries formed to keep the peace after the world war ends?
(a) United Nations
(b) League of Nations
(c) NATO
(d) Blackwater Security

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Barkley's "prop-stop" campaign?

2. What party did Truman belong to?

3. Who did Truman choose to accompany him to meet the train bearing Roosevelt's body?

4. Who were Truman's lifelong heroes?

5. Where did the Truman family live until the Roosevelt family departed the White House?

(see the answer key)

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