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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What type of company does Harry Truman fail in after the mine?
(a) Grocery
(b) Shoe Sales
(c) Oil & Refining
(d) Computers
2. On what charge was Tom Pendergast arrested, convicted and jailed?
(a) Tax evasion
(b) Murder and rape
(c) Embezzlement
(d) Polygamy
3. What element of Truman's style changed during the time of the Truman Committee?
(a) He began wearing his now famous bow ties instead of a necktie
(b) He allowed his hair to grow past his shoulders
(c) He stopped wearing his glasses
(d) He began wearing jeans
4. What job does Truman take between his judgeships?
(a) Selling memberships in the Kansas City Automobile Club
(b) Writing a newspaper column as a music critic
(c) Running whiskey for the Pendergast Organization
(d) Selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions
5. When Germany advances on Moscow, what does President Roosevelt offer Stalin?
(a) 100,000 troops
(b) A billion dollars worth of supplies
(c) Nuclear warheads
(d) Sound advice
6. Although Harry writes many letters to Bess, he cannot master one art of good correspondence. What is it?
(a) Good grammar
(b) Finding the correct pen
(c) Good penmanship
(d) Good spelling
7. What was the Canol Project?
(a) A scheme to build a four inch pipeline from Canada to Alaska
(b) The atom bomb
(c) A plan to end hunger in America using cooking oil
(d) A plan for a large dam on the Canol River
8. What was a dollar-a-year man?
(a) A man who stole one dollar per day from the government
(b) A man whose only income was one dollar
(c) A man whose only worth was one dollar
(d) 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.
9. What was the name of Roosevelt's beloved dog?
(a) Lassie
(b) Socks
(c) Rin Tin Tin
(d) Fala
10. What is the name of the ship Harry Truman and his battalion are on for the Atlantic crossing?
(a) The Titanic
(b) The Mary Deare
(c) The George Washington
(d) The Lusitania
11. When did the Democratic party decide to place Truman as Vice President on their ticket?
(a) When Roosevelt died
(b) When Roosevelt became ill
(c) Three years in advance
(d) At the Democratic National Convention in 1944.
12. In 1841, what was considered the extreme frontier of the USA?
(a) Southern Georgia
(b) Western Missouri
(c) Western Pennsylvania
(d) Vermont
13. What was Roosevelt's continuing admonition to his departments regarding defense production in 1941?
(a) "Wait until the budget is passed"
(b) "Speed, speed, speed."
(c) "Take your time"
(d) "Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy"
14. What was the Armistice?
(a) The name given to the plantation where Truman retired
(b) The name of the transport ship taking Truman home after WWI
(c) The name Truman gave his old car
(d) The treaty signed between the Germans and the Allies agreeing to end the war
15. What was one of the unique things about the Truman Committee?
(a) All of the members were white men
(b) The Senate does not usually operate by committee
(c) None of the members were Senators
(d) The committee was unanimous on every report.
Short Answer Questions
1. What organization with secret rituals did Harry Truman join in 1909?
2. How many days was Truman Vice President?
3. Harry Truman always carried a favorite poem in his wallet. What was that poem and the author?
4. What epidemics decimated the families in Independence during the years of 1851-1854?
5. What is the name of the new organization of countries formed to keep the peace after the world war ends?
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