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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the leader of the Progressive Party who was in competition with the Democrats and Republicans in the 1948 election?
(a) Charlie Ross
(b) Andrew Jackson
(c) Margaret Truman
(d) Henry Wallace

2. How many months had Truman been President before both Germany and Japan surrendered?
(a) Four
(b) Three
(c) Six
(d) One

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

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

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

6. What was a whistle-stop?
(a) A street corner
(b) The term used to call for a taxi while standing on the sidewalk
(c) Term used to describe Truman's style of campaigning by stopping his Presidential train in every small town along the way so he could meet the American people.
(d) A method used to veto a bill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous landmark did Churchill visit when in Berlin?

2. Who was Truman's Vice President before Barkley?

3. What industry does Truman attempt to turn over to government control in April of 1952?

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

5. Whose appointment to Truman's cabinet made a positive and calming effect?

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