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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the eyes of the Truman Committee, what governmental department was the most to blame for bad planning?
(a) Navy Department
(b) Department of Agriculture
(c) Defense Department
(d) Office of Production Management

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

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

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

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

6. How many men and boys were killed in Quantrille's raid on Lawrence, Kansas?
(a) 10
(b) 300
(c) 150
(d) None

7. For most of the people in Independence in the 1800's, who was their hero?
(a) Abraham Lincoln
(b) George Washington
(c) Andrew Jackson
(d) George Bush

8. What was the attitude of the townspeople of Independence towards people of color?
(a) Prejudice and racism were common and accepted
(b) Independence was a haven for slaves and immigrants
(c) Accepting and welcoming in clubs and homes
(d) The people of Independence were abolitionists and offered assistance

9. Why did Truman vote against the reappointment of District Attorney Milligan?
(a) Milligan had insulted Margaret
(b) As a gesture of loyalty to Tom Pendergast
(c) He felt Milligan was doing a bad job
(d) He did not vote at all

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

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

12. 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) NATO
(c) Blackwater Security
(d) United Nations

13. Who were Harry Truman's parents?
(a) Solomon Young and Mary Jane Truman
(b) Harry Truman Sr and Elizabeth Young
(c) John Truman and Martha Ellen Young
(d) Bill Truman and Elizabeth Taylor

14. What pet name did Truman have for Bess?
(a) The Old Bat
(b) The Boss or Madam
(c) Her Highness
(d) Sweetie Pie

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event propelled the United States into WWII?

2. What is the number one recommendation from the S-1 Interim Committee to Truman?

3. Who resigns from Truman's cabinet before Potsdam?

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

5. In November of 1930, something happened to Margaret Truman. What was it?

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