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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the most common method of travel for settlers in the 1800s to take to Independence?
(a) Steamboat
(b) Interstate Highway
(c) Railway
(d) Canoe

3. For most of the people in Independence in the 1800's, who was their hero?
(a) Andrew Jackson
(b) George Washington
(c) George Bush
(d) Abraham Lincoln

4. What political party did Harry, his father, and most of the adults in Independence belong to?
(a) Republicans
(b) Whigs
(c) Green Party
(d) Democrats

5. When Harry was nine, his family moved to Independence. He met a girl at Sunday School and fell in love that lasted his whole life. Who was this girl?
(a) Eleanor Roosevelt
(b) Margaret Truman
(c) Mary Jane Truman
(d) Bess Wallace

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Truman farm produce?

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

3. Harry Truman travels to see Bess in Grandview. How many miles one way is the trip?

4. What was Independence Missouri's nickname in the 1840s?

5. Who in Truman's family passes away in November of 1914?

(see the answer key)

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