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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What major country turned Communist during Truman's second Presidency?
(a) China
(b) India
(c) Japan
(d) South Africa

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

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

4. What was the name of President Truman's custom built railway car?
(a) Pullman Car #3457113
(b) The Titanic
(c) The Ferdinand Magellan
(d) The George Washington

5. What weapon is Truman encouraged to authorize to end the Korean Conflict?
(a) Heavy tanks
(b) Biological warfare
(c) Atom bomb
(d) H-Bomb

6. How did the leaders entertain each other in the evenings of the conference?
(a) Listening to baseball games on the radio
(b) Dinners and musical entertainment
(c) Dancing with the town women
(d) Watching football on televsion

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

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

9. What was Barkley's "prop-stop" campaign?
(a) It refers to the time in his campaign when his plane's propellor fell off
(b) The propellor pin he wore on his suit lapel during the campaign
(c) Barkley's habit of propping himself against a bar to deliver speeches
(d) A trip the VP candidate took by airplane that was similar to the railway tour the President was making.

10. What was Truman's primary goal of the Potsdam Conference?
(a) To see Europe for free
(b) To get Stalin to commit to entering the war against Japan
(c) To find an excuse to use the atom bomb
(d) To tell the other countries about the atom bomb

11. What new civilian agency is set up under Truman's presidency?
(a) Central Intelligence Agency
(b) Committee to Re-Elect the President
(c) Air Force
(d) Federal Bureau of Investigation

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

13. How much did the White House renovation cost?
(a) 5.8 million dollars
(b) 300,000
(c) 1 million dollars
(d) Nothing - all work was donated

14. What condition of the White House was hidden from the Press until after the election?
(a) Fine condition, no need of repair
(b) The elevator was no longer working
(c) The portico had fallen on the presidential limo
(d) The second floor was falling into the first floor.

15. What was the origination of the term "pinko?"
(a) When a difference was pointed out between a red Communist and a lesser dedicated Communist, a pink one.
(b) Pinko was an affectionate name Harry gave Bess
(c) It is a shortened version ofthe term pinkolator which was a brand of coffee maker
(d) Pinko referred to men who wore women's clothes

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Truman when he passed away?

2. Who was the leader of the Dixiecrats?

3. Why was it so important to create an Atomic Energy Commission?

4. 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?

5. What happened to the President's normal work when he was on the campaign trail?

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