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The document contains 5 multiple choice questions about US President Harry S. Truman from a C-SPAN student challenge quiz. The questions cover Truman's ranking by historians among US presidents, what the S in his name stands for, his involvement with Major League Baseball in 1950, the president his mother despised, and the college he attended.
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