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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What sort of equality did Truman support for Negroes?
(a) Legal equality, but not social equality.
(b) Complete equality
(c) Financial only, not social
(d) He did not support any equality for Negroes

3. Who in Truman's family passes away in November of 1914?
(a) Bess Truman
(b) Martha Ellen Truman
(c) Margaret Truman
(d) John Truman

4. What are the names of Harry's brother and sister?
(a) Harrison and Bess
(b) J. Vivian and Mary Jane
(c) Jim and Eleanor
(d) Franklin and Eleanor

5. Who was the most influential new friend Truman gained during his first term as Senator?
(a) Robert E. Lee's widow
(b) Ex-President Abraham LIncoln
(c) Justice Louis D. Brandeis
(d) Andrew Jackson's son

6. Where did the Truman family live when in D.C. until Harry became President?
(a) Missouri embassy
(b) Blair House
(c) 4701 Connecticut Avenue
(d) 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

7. What is the name of the new organization of countries formed to keep the peace after the world war ends?
(a) League of Nations
(b) Blackwater Security
(c) NATO
(d) United Nations

8. Who resigns from Truman's cabinet before Potsdam?
(a) Secretary of War
(b) Secretary of Treasury
(c) Vice President
(d) His intern

9. What was the Armistice?
(a) The treaty signed between the Germans and the Allies agreeing to end the war
(b) The name of the transport ship taking Truman home after WWI
(c) The name given to the plantation where Truman retired
(d) The name Truman gave his old car

10. What event propelled the United States into WWII?
(a) Bombing of World Trade Center
(b) Killing of Arch Duke Ferdinand
(c) Japanese attack on the fleet at Parl Harbor in Hawaii
(d) Sinking of the Titanic

11. What job does Truman take between his judgeships?
(a) Selling memberships in the Kansas City Automobile Club
(b) Running whiskey for the Pendergast Organization
(c) Selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions
(d) Writing a newspaper column as a music critic

12. Who does Truman appoint as his Secretary of State?
(a) Teddy Roosevelt
(b) Jimmy Byrnes
(c) Robert E. Lee
(d) Henry Wallace

13. What kind of automobile does Harry Truman first purchase?
(a) 1910 Volkswagon
(b) 1890 Mercedes
(c) 1911 Stafford
(d) 1929 Ford Model T

14. Although Harry writes many letters to Bess, he cannot master one art of good correspondence. What is it?
(a) Good penmanship
(b) Good grammar
(c) Good spelling
(d) Finding the correct pen

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of Roosevelt's policies did Truman support the most enthusiastically?

3. What is the name of the ship Harry Truman and his battalion are on for the Atlantic crossing?

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

5. What did Truman do when he was suspicious about the defense industry overspending?

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