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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was the leader of the Dixiecrats?
(a) Adlai Stevenson
(b) Jefferson Davis
(c) Strom Thurmond
(d) Henry Wallace

4. Who do Truman's supporters and staff encourage him to fire as a result of Fulbright's Senate committee report?
(a) General MacArthur
(b) George Patton
(c) Bill Boyle, Democratic National Chairman
(d) George Marshall

5. 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?
(a) OPEC
(b) Berlin Wall
(c) Iron Curtain
(d) Axis of Evil

6. Who of Truman's long time friends was most instrumental in advising him regarding the Palestine problem?
(a) Eddie Jacobson
(b) Jim Pendergast
(c) Charlie Ross
(d) George Marshall

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

8. Which country was able to assemble an atomic bomb after the USA?
(a) China
(b) Soviet Union
(c) Israel
(d) France

9. 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) Presidential Library and forming the NAACP
(d) Buidling a fence around the farm and his wardrobe

10. How old was Truman when he passed away?
(a) 35
(b) 103
(c) 55
(d) 88

11. How did Truman's personal staff feel about him?
(a) They feared him
(b) They thought he was boring
(c) They admired and respected him
(d) They disliked him intensely

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

13. What industry does Truman attempt to turn over to government control in April of 1952?
(a) Steel mills
(b) Computer
(c) Ship Building
(d) Automobile

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

15. Why did Truman write an angry letter to the newspaper?
(a) A reporter was stalking Margaret
(b) A columnist had given Margaret's concert a bad review
(c) His Sunday paper did not arrive on time
(d) A reporter had published a comment he thought was off record

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country chose not to participate in the Marshall Plan and thereby caused several more countries in that bloc to pull out?

2. Who in the government has the final say regarding military matters?

3. What is one Presidential first that is mentioned in this chapter?

4. What was Barkley's "prop-stop" campaign?

5. Who was the leader of the Progressive Party who was in competition with the Democrats and Republicans in the 1948 election?

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