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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4 Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the first six months of 1942 military contracts added what amount to the U.S. economy?
(a) $2 billion
(b) $500
(c) $100,000
(d) $400 billion

2. What was an overriding concern for Truman in his early years as a Senator in Washington?
(a) Personal finances
(b) Margaret's behavior in public
(c) Hiring a maid for his house
(d) Getting caught with another woman

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

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

5. What major personal events occur for Harry Truman in Chapter 5?
(a) He is forced to undergo a paternity test
(b) He is divorced from his first wife and moves to Kansas City
(c) He is ordained as a preacher and married
(d) He gets married and his daughter is born

Short Answer Questions

1. How many members did the Truman Committee have?

2. Truman's foreign office is warning him about the after war dangers of which country?

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

4. In later years, how does Harry describe his childhood?

5. From what other state did most of the people settling Missouri migrate?

(see the answer key)

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