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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 hold the line there
(c) To proceed into China
(d) To proceed into North Korea.

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

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

4. Where do the Trumans live in Independence?
(a) Truman farm
(b) The family home of Bess Truman
(c) Truman library
(d) Wtih Margaret and her husband

5. What country's military is in possession of Potsdam at the time of the conference?
(a) Canada
(b) Germany
(c) Mexico
(d) Soviet Union

6. What geographical designation separated South Korea from North Korea?
(a) The Alps
(b) 38th Parallel
(c) The 41st parallel
(d) The Yang River

7. What was the Turnip Congress? .
(a) The special congressional session called by Truman during the time of Missouri's Turnip Day
(b) A session of congress where only bills concerning turnips were discussed
(c) A session of congress where dissidents threw turnips at the congressmen
(d) A special committee that turned up important information

8. Who was Truman's Vice President before Barkley?
(a) Henry Wallace
(b) Jimmy Byrnes
(c) Jim Pendergast
(d) No one

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Truman's personal staff feel about him?

2. How many people did the bomb actually kill in Hiroshima?

3. What was a Dixiecrat?

4. Why doesn't the military deploy more divisions in North Korea?

5. At the end of the war, how many service men and women were coming back to the American work force?

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