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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5 Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a Dixiecrat?
(a) Members of the southern Democratic party who withdrew from the Truman's Democratic Party because of his stand on Civil Rights.
(b) A politician who endorsed the NAACP
(c) A politician who whistles Dixie
(d) A type of paper cup

2. What was the origination of the term "pinko?"
(a) Pinko was an affectionate name Harry gave Bess
(b) Pinko referred to men who wore women's clothes
(c) When a difference was pointed out between a red Communist and a lesser dedicated Communist, a pink one.
(d) It is a shortened version ofthe term pinkolator which was a brand of coffee maker

3. What was one voting faction in this election that had never been involved in presidential elections before?
(a) Jews were allowed to vote
(b) Family pets, if pedigreed, were allowed to vote
(c) Women were allowed to vote
(d) Blacks were allowed to vote.

4. What were the nicknames for the divisions in the Missouri Democratic Party?
(a) Donkeys and Elephants
(b) Goats and Rabbits
(c) Rats and Pigs
(d) Hares and Turtles

5. What was a dollar-a-year man?
(a) A man whose only worth was one dollar
(b) A man who stole one dollar per day from the government
(c) A man whose only income was one dollar
(d) A businessman who kept his original salary from his company and worked for the government for a token small salary, all for the war effort.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Truman's personal staff feel about him?

2. What is the name of the new organization of countries formed to keep the peace after the world war ends?

3. Who of Truman's long time friends was most instrumental in advising him regarding the Palestine problem?

4. What kind of automobile does Harry Truman first purchase?

5. Of all the labor strikes after the war, which is the one that brings Truman to the strongest action?

(see the answer key)

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