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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 W.H. Auden poem does Brooks reference to help describe Eliot's decision to be with her life-long romantic partner?
(a) Taking the Plunge.
(b) Life on the Edge.
(c) Leap Before You Look.
(d) Oh How a Rose.

2. According to Brooks, what did Augustine seem to believe humans were not capable of?
(a) Sinning.
(b) Ordering their desires on their own.
(c) Being content.
(d) Truly loving another human being.

3. What kind of illness did Marshall's wife suffer from?
(a) Asthma.
(b) Arthritis.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Heart weakness.

4. Where did Randolph move at the beginning of his career?
(a) Selma.
(b) Orlando.
(c) Harlem.
(d) Chicago.

5. How did his wife's death change Marshall's approach to life?
(a) He became less taciturn and more social.
(b) He withdrew from public life and languished in solidarity.
(c) He went to medical school.
(d) He left the military and took a new job managing a charity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did George Marshall refuse to keep a diary?

2. What position did Augustine take in the later years of his life?

3. What company did Randolph work very hard to help unionize?

4. What did Eliot's father become very successful in as a line of work?

5. Where was George Marshall born?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did George Marshall humiliate his father when he was a young boy?

2. What kind of relationship did Mary Anne Evans (whose pen name was George Eliot) have with her mother?

3. In what ways were Eliot and George Lewes well-matched as a couple?

4. What significant event during the Civil Rights era did Rustin help to organize and execute?

5. What was the main social consequence of Eliot's relationship with Lewes?

6. What does Brooks imply is the impetus for Marshall's drive to succeed?

7. As a young woman, what causes a large rift between Eliot and her father?

8. What request did Marshall make for his funeral arrangements?

9. What was the surprising outcome of Marshall's tense encounter with General Pershing in 1917?

10. What kind of attitude did Marshall have towards institutions, according to Brooks?

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