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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harry Truman travels to see Bess in Grandview. How many miles one way is the trip?
(a) One Mile
(b) Three hundred Miles
(c) Sixteen Miles
(d) Fifty Miles

2. Which of Truman's commanders was the most unreasonable and was disliked the most by Truman?
(a) Klemm
(b) Marshall
(c) Jacobson
(d) Pershing

3. What organization with secret rituals did Harry Truman join in 1909?
(a) Rainbow Girls
(b) Boy Scouts
(c) Freemasonry or the Masons
(d) Ku Klux Klan

4. What was Independence Missouri's nickname in the 1840s?
(a) Queen City of the Trails
(b) Mormon Paradise
(c) Land of Enchantment
(d) Land of Milk and Honey

5. What was General Order Number 11?
(a) Union Army decree that all persons in Missouri who could not prove their loyalty to the Union would have to leave Missouri.
(b) Government decree that people in Missour could not vote
(c) Government decree that all women should wear hats
(d) Union Army decree that all Missouri farmers commit 50% of their crop to the army

Short Answer Questions

1. What interest did Harry and his father share?

2. Harry Truman's ancestors were predominantly of what heritage?

3. Where did most of the sayings, such as "a good name is rather to be chosen than great riches", that were part of Truman's upbringing, originate?

4. What were the nicknames for the divisions in the Missouri Democratic Party?

5. What did Harry's mother say to him each time he left the house?

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