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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the ship Harry Truman and his battalion are on for the Atlantic crossing?
(a) The Mary Deare
(b) The George Washington
(c) The Titanic
(d) The Lusitania

2. Which of Truman's commanders was the most unreasonable and was disliked the most by Truman?
(a) Marshall
(b) Jacobson
(c) Klemm
(d) Pershing

3. What was a dollar-a-year man?
(a) A man whose only income was one dollar
(b) A man who stole one dollar per day from the government
(c) A businessman who kept his original salary from his company and worked for the government for a token small salary, all for the war effort.
(d) A man whose only worth was one dollar

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

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

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

7. When Germany advances on Moscow, what does President Roosevelt offer Stalin?
(a) Nuclear warheads
(b) Sound advice
(c) 100,000 troops
(d) A billion dollars worth of supplies

8. What was the beginning of the end for Tom Pendergast? .
(a) The investigation of his personal finances
(b) WWII caused his business to falter
(c) The investigation of his wife's real estate company
(d) The investigation of illegal voting practices in his county's 1936 elections

9. What was Truman's attitude towards running for Vice President?
(a) He did not have an opinion
(b) He was eager to run
(c) He was afraid of running
(d) He did not want to

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

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

12. Where was Harry S Truman born?
(a) Independence, MO
(b) Santa Fe, NM
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) Lamar, MO

13. What did Harry's mother say to him each time he left the house?
(a) Harry, please don't smoke
(b) Harry, I love you
(c) Now Harry, you be good
(d) Harry, bring home the bacon

14. Why does the Truman family move to Kansas City? .
(a) John Truman has lost the family business and property due to bad investments in wheat futures
(b) The Truman family were asked to leave town
(c) John Truman left the family to join the war
(d) Harry Truman forced them to move for his political ambition

15. At their meeting in August of 1944, what did Roosevelt give to Truman to give to his wife and daughter?
(a) Orange black tea
(b) Custom dresses from New York
(c) Autographed photos of himself
(d) Rosebuds

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the yearly salary for Truman's job as presiding judge?

2. Whose photographs does Harry carry in his uniform pocket during the entire war?

3. What was the real name of the Truman Committee?

4. Who was President of the USA during World War I?

5. What essential materials were in short supply as America prepared for war?

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