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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What longtime cabinet member resigns due to a disagreement with Truman?
(a) Henry Wallace
(b) Robert E. Lee
(c) Harold Ickes
(d) Andrew Jackson

2. Who is Truman's first choice for his replacement as President?
(a) Henry Wallace
(b) Strom Thurmand
(c) Joe McCarthy
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower

3. What career is Margaret Truman pursuing?
(a) Lab Technician
(b) Singing
(c) Acting
(d) Computer Science

4. When the U.S. and South Korean Army pushes the North Korean/Chinese back to the 38th parallel, what decision is made about the next step?
(a) To evacuate all troops from Korea
(b) To proceed into North Korea.
(c) To proceed into China
(d) To hold the line there

5. Where does the only meeting in history of Truman and MacArthur take place?
(a) Wake Island
(b) Washington DC
(c) Potsdam
(d) New Mexico

6. Who were "The Big Three" of the Potsdam conference?
(a) Gorbachev, Bush and Truman
(b) Truman, DeGaulle and Patton
(c) Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
(d) Truman, Churchill and Stalin

7. Which country chose not to participate in the Marshall Plan and thereby caused several more countries in that bloc to pull out?
(a) Japan
(b) Soviet Union
(c) China
(d) Germany

8. At the end of the war, how many service men and women were coming back to the American work force?
(a) 12 million
(b) 1 million
(c) None - they all re-enlisted
(d) 10 million

9. Who did Truman choose to replace Marshall as his Secretary of State?
(a) Charlie Ross
(b) George Marshall's son
(c) Dean Rusk
(d) Dean Acheson

10. What famous landmark did Churchill visit when in Berlin?
(a) Berlin HIlton
(b) Arc de Triumph
(c) Hitler's Bunker
(d) St Paul's Cathedral

11. In what country was Potsdam located?
(a) Germany
(b) Poland
(c) England
(d) Norway

12. What was a Dixiecrat?
(a) Members of the southern Democratic party who withdrew from the Truman's Democratic Party because of his stand on Civil Rights.
(b) A politician who whistles Dixie
(c) A politician who endorsed the NAACP
(d) A type of paper cup

13. What is Adlai Stevenson's position when he runs for President?
(a) Private Citizen
(b) Secretary of War
(c) Senator from New Mexico
(d) Governor of Illinois

14. Where was the American's atom bomb tested?
(a) New Mexico
(b) Bikini Atoll
(c) California
(d) Washington DC

15. What two projects occupied Truman for the remainder of his life?
(a) His Presidential Library and his memoirs
(b) Buidling a fence around the farm and his wardrobe
(c) Climbing mountains and visiting friends
(d) Presidential Library and forming the NAACP

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Margaret after her father finishes her Presidential terms?

2. What happens to the White House during Truman's second term?

3. During Churchill's speech in Missouri, as a guest of Truman, what term does Churchill use to describe the Soviet Union presence that became a common term?

4. How many months had Truman been President before both Germany and Japan surrendered?

5. What was the name of President Truman's custom built railway car?

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