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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Harry Truman leave his job in Kansas City?
(a) He was fired
(b) To join the Army
(c) To help the family with the farm.
(d) To marry Bess

2. What is cost-plus construction?
(a) Avoiding taxes on construction workers
(b) Contractor is paid for all costs plus a fixed percentage profit
(c) Construction that costs more than originally estimated.
(d) The method of paying contractors for work done

3. What did Truman think was a damaging move by Roosevelt?
(a) Entering WWII
(b) Bombing the Japanese home cities
(c) Entering WWI
(d) The attempt to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices

4. What career did Margaret Truman plan to enter?
(a) Nursing
(b) Publishing agent
(c) Computer science
(d) Singer

5. In November of 1930, something happened to Margaret Truman. What was it?
(a) Someone attempted to kidnap her.
(b) Someone stole her purse
(c) She had a baby
(d) She met her future husband

Short Answer Questions

1. What epidemics decimated the families in Independence during the years of 1851-1854?

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

3. How long was Truman & Jacobson in business?

4. In the first six months of 1942 military contracts added what amount to the U.S. economy?

5. When Germany advances on Moscow, what does President Roosevelt offer Stalin?

(see the answer key)

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