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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5 Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Truman sends Harry Hopkins to talk to Stalin, he says "use diplomatic language or what?"
(a) A baseball bat
(b) Large amounts of cash
(c) Offers of wine
(d) Offers of women

2. Where did the Truman family live until the Roosevelt family departed the White House?
(a) Independence, MO
(b) Key West, FL
(c) Blair House, Washington DC
(d) New York, New York

3. Who were Truman's lifelong heroes?
(a) Abraham Lincoln and Malcom X
(b) George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
(c) George Bush and Bill Clinton
(d) Andrew Jackson and Robert E. Lee

4. Why is Chapter 2 entitled "Model Boy?"
(a) Harry S. Truman liked to build airplane models
(b) Harry S. Truman's mother was a world famous model
(c) Harry S. Truman was an excellent student, great friend, faithful son, never in trouble, industrious and kind.
(d) Harry S. Truman was a child actor

5. What essential materials were in short supply as America prepared for war?
(a) steel, latex, and plutonium
(b) Aluminum, copper, zinc and rubber
(c) lead, coal, limestone and rock
(d) computers, cell phones and i-pods

Short Answer Questions

1. At their meeting in August of 1944, what did Roosevelt give to Truman to give to his wife and daughter?

2. What was a Dixiecrat?

3. How did Bess Wallace's father die?

4. What career did Margaret Truman plan to enter?

5. What part of Truman's past most concerned the Democratic Party for the campaign?

(see the answer key)

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