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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Truman take between his judgeships?
(a) Writing a newspaper column as a music critic
(b) Running whiskey for the Pendergast Organization
(c) Selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions
(d) Selling memberships in the Kansas City Automobile Club

2. What organization with secret rituals did Harry Truman join in 1909?
(a) Ku Klux Klan
(b) Boy Scouts
(c) Freemasonry or the Masons
(d) Rainbow Girls

3. What political party did Harry, his father, and most of the adults in Independence belong to?
(a) Republicans
(b) Green Party
(c) Democrats
(d) Whigs

4. Truman's foreign office is warning him about the after war dangers of which country?
(a) Argentina
(b) Mexico
(c) Soviet Union
(d) Japan

5. How many members did the Truman Committee have?
(a) Only one
(b) Three
(c) Fifteen
(d) Seven

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of Harry's brother and sister?

2. Which of Roosevelt's policies did Truman support the most enthusiastically?

3. Who does Truman appoint as his Secretary of State?

4. What was Harry Truman's first paid job?

5. What two political positions did Truman want before he was allowed to run for Senate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Harry's father and mother, using the following criteria: 1) appearance, 2) religious beliefs and upbringing, 3) admirable qualities, 4) values they can teach Truman to make him a good President, leader and man.

2. The author entitled Chapter 8 "Numbered Days." Whose days are being referred to here?

3. Reading over the description of Independence, MO, beginning on Page 50, describe Truman's hometown as it relates to 1) economic viability, 2) founders and citizens, and 3) education.

4. Tom Pendergast's advice to Harry Truman as he left for D.C. was "Work hard, keep your mouth shut, and answer your mail." Was this good advice for the new senator? Why?

5. Was Truman adequately prepared to assume the role of President? If you choose to answer no, detail what attributes or knowledge Truman needed to do a good job. If you choose to answer yes, outline what qualities or experience Truman had to prepare him for the job.

6. How is Truman's approach to the press so different from Roosevelt's?

7. Why was it important for Truman to spend so much time as a new President with the funeral of Roosevelt?

8. Was trench warfare a reasonable strategy of fighting a war? Why or why not?

9. Compared to the Slaughter family farm, the Trumans were always broke. Why do you think this was so?

10. Why do you think the land around Independence was called Blue River Country?

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