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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chapter 11 say the South End once was?
(a) The cheapest place for lodging in Boston.
(b) The largest rooming house district of America.
(c) The east coast drug hub.
(d) The most dangerous place in America.

2. Whom does Chapter 4 say was with Colin Diver when he listened to Mayor's White speech?
(a) Joan Diver.
(b) Martin Black.
(c) Marty Tram.
(d) David Mann.

3. What was Louise Day Hicks known to be?
(a) An alcoholic.
(b) A bigot.
(c) A liberal.
(d) A saint.

4. What was Alice McGoff's ethnicity?
(a) African-American.
(b) Caucasian.
(c) Mexican.
(d) Chinese-American.

5. What does Chapter 13 say about Colin's ambition?
(a) He was interested in Boston's success.
(b) He wanted to go to Congress.
(c) He wanted out of politics.
(d) He wanted to be governor.

6. What does Chapter 13 say about Colin's expectations of what government could and couldn't do in the area of social justice?
(a) He wasn't interested in keeping them.
(b) They were reexamined them after working for White.
(c) They had diminished.
(d) They had changed.

7. What did Rachel successfully do in August 1967?
(a) Moved in New York.
(b) Secured a SBA loan.
(c) Found a job.
(d) Found a husband.

8. What organization worked to raise money and improve the condition in the African-American community in Boston?
(a) P.O.O.R.
(b) M.O.N.E.Y.
(c) C.A.S.H.
(d) F.U.N.D.

9. What does Chapter 5 say about Quinnie having many of?
(a) Addictions.
(b) Money.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

10. What did Colin notice while driving the South End ?
(a) Drug dealers.
(b) Kids of different ethnicities playing together.
(c) Good deals on homes.
(d) Prostitutes.

11. When did Charles McKechnie die?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1912.

12. Who was informed of the assassination of Martin Luther King at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) Gerald Ford.
(b) The mayor of Boston.
(c) Ted Kennedy.
(d) President Nixon.

13. For whom did Colin work, at the start of Chapter 13?
(a) Sam Merrick
(b) Kevin White.
(c) Barney Frank.
(d) Rosy O'Donnel.

14. What college did Joan McKechnie attend?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Boston College.
(c) Washington College for Girls.
(d) Wheaton College.

15. Who employed the Bennefields after they were freed following the Civil War?
(a) The Divers.
(b) The Dreshams.
(c) The McGoffs.
(d) The Whites.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did John McKechnie come to Boston, according to Chapter 7?

2. When did Quinnie die, according to Chapter 5?

3. Who canceled James Brown's concert after the assassination of Martin Luther King?

4. What school did Rachel Twymon's children attend, according to Chapter 8?

5. What school did Rachel Twymon send her younger children to?

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