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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 family members accompanied him on the campaign trail?
(a) His mother and father
(b) Bess and Margaret
(c) His sister and mother
(d) His brother and his brother's wife and sons

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

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

4. 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 portico had fallen on the presidential limo
(d) The elevator was no longer working

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

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

7. What happened to the President's normal work when he was on the campaign trail?
(a) His staff collected all the papers and held them until he arrived home
(b) It continued as before from Truman's desk on the train
(c) Bess took care of it
(d) The vice president handled everything

8. How did the three world leaders enter the conference room in Potsdam?
(a) Through the main door
(b) They were all on teleconference and did not use the doors
(c) Through the kitchen door
(d) By three separate doors

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

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

11. 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

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

13. What family member does Truman lose in July of 1947?
(a) His mother
(b) His father
(c) His wife
(d) His daughter

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Truman when his second term as president began?

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

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

4. Where does the only meeting in history of Truman and MacArthur take place?

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

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