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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Roosevelt's continuing admonition to his departments regarding defense production in 1941?
(a) "Speed, speed, speed."
(b) "Take your time"
(c) "Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy"
(d) "Wait until the budget is passed"

3. Who did Roosevelt want as his Vice President?
(a) Teddy Roosevelt
(b) Unknown - Roosevelt changed his mind often during the VP discussions with his staff
(c) Adlai Stevenson
(d) Harry Truman

4. What was the original funding for the Truman Committee?
(a) $10,000
(b) $4,000
(c) $100,000
(d) $1 million

5. What new inventions did Truman never learn to use or like?
(a) Telephone and typewriter
(b) Telegraph and electric bulb
(c) Computer and cell phone
(d) Toilet and bathtub

6. What organization with secret rituals did Harry Truman join in 1909?
(a) Ku Klux Klan
(b) Rainbow Girls
(c) Boy Scouts
(d) Freemasonry or the Masons

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

8. How long was Truman & Jacobson in business?
(a) One year
(b) Three years
(c) Ten years
(d) Twent-five Years

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

10. 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

11. What was Independence Missouri's nickname in the 1840s?
(a) Mormon Paradise
(b) Land of Enchantment
(c) Land of Milk and Honey
(d) Queen City of the Trails

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

13. What questionable organization was Truman encouraged to join by his party?
(a) Local country club
(b) Republicans
(c) Ku Klux Klan
(d) NAACP

14. Harry Truman's ancestors were predominantly of what heritage?
(a) Japanese-Korean
(b) English-Norwegian
(c) Scotch-Irish
(d) Welsh-German

15. How many members did the Truman Committee have?
(a) Fifteen
(b) Only one
(c) Seven
(d) Three

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In the first six months of 1942 military contracts added what amount to the U.S. economy?

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

5. Who were Harry Truman's parents?

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