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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chapter 1 say many law school students were avoiding?
(a) The draft.
(b) Work.
(c) Marrying.
(d) The establishment.

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

3. What did Alice McGoff support, but was skeptical of when it moved to the north?
(a) Malcom X movement.
(b) Martin Luther King's movement.
(c) The Black Panther movement.
(d) Ted Kennedy's movement.

4. What extra curricular activity did Colin Diver do that Chapter 1 says opened the door to the best jobs?
(a) Editor of the Boston College Journal of Medicine.
(b) Editor of the Harvard Law Review.
(c) Captain of the football team.
(d) Director of the Stanford Ballet Association.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization worked to raise money and improve the condition in the African-American community in Boston?

2. Whom did the Jenkins family migrate to Nova Scotia with?

3. What school was Coline Diver attending in Chapter 1?

4. What event does Chapter 1 say affected Diver?

5. Who or what did Bernie Kirk, Alice's father, not support despite of roots in his district?

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