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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In later years, how does Harry describe his childhood?
(a) He could not remember his chidlhood
(b) One misery after another
(c) filled with poverty and need
(d) The happiest imaginable

2. What was Harry Truman's first paid job?
(a) Sweeping, dusting and cleaning at Clinton's Drugstore in Independence
(b) Newspaper route
(c) Bicycle courier for a bank in Kansas City
(d) Cleaning and painting houses in his neighborhood

3. Truman's foreign office is warning him about the after war dangers of which country?
(a) Mexico
(b) Argentina
(c) Japan
(d) Soviet Union

4. Who did Truman choose to accompany him to meet the train bearing Roosevelt's body?
(a) Bess and Margaret Truman
(b) Eleanor and Teddy Roosevelt
(c) No one. He stood alone.
(d) Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace

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) Margaret Truman
(b) Mary Jane Truman
(c) Eleanor Roosevelt
(d) Bess Wallace

6. How were Truman's ancestors related to the bushwhackers?
(a) Through Jim Crow Chiles
(b) There was no connection
(c) Bess's marriage to Harry
(d) Through Uncle Harrison

7. In the extended family of the Truman household, who disciplined Margaret?
(a) Bess
(b) Harry
(c) Bess's Mother
(d) Truman's mother

8. What interest did Harry and his father share?
(a) Watching tv
(b) Woodworking
(c) Politics
(d) Fishing and hunting

9. What element of Truman's style changed during the time of the Truman Committee?
(a) He allowed his hair to grow past his shoulders
(b) He began wearing jeans
(c) He stopped wearing his glasses
(d) He began wearing his now famous bow ties instead of a necktie

10. How did young Harry Truman like to occupy his time?
(a) Shoplifting from the pharmacy and smoking with friends
(b) Playing the piano, reading books, and being with his family.
(c) In his room playing Dungeons and Dragons
(d) Playing baseball, basketball and football

11. According to his letters to Bess, what part of Truman's command duties did he dislike the most?
(a) Meting out discipline to his troops.
(b) Wearing the uniform
(c) Meeting with the other captains
(d) Writing reports to command

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

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

14. What does Harry give as a reason to join the military and go to war?
(a) Someone has to do it.
(b) I need to get out of twon
(c) It is either this or jail time
(d) I need a job

15. What epidemics decimated the families in Independence during the years of 1851-1854?
(a) AIDS and herpes
(b) Cholera, scarlet fever and pneumonia
(c) West Nile Fever and flu
(d) Bubonic Plague and severe colds

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did the Truman family live when in D.C. until Harry became President?

4. Where did the Truman family live until the Roosevelt family departed the White House?

5. What major personal events occur for Harry Truman in Chapter 5?

(see the answer keys)

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