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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did the Boston officials try to calm the African-American community after the assassination of Martin Luther King?
(a) Called in the National Guard.
(b) Let the riots die out.
(c) Used police.
(d) Used the African-American leaders instead of the police.

3. When did Fanny Walker relocate to Boston?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1935.

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

5. For whom did Ben Colin work?
(a) MIT computer lab.
(b) MIT physics lab.
(c) MIT photo lab.
(d) MIT biology lab.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was John McKechnie's profession?

2. Whom did Colin Diver speak to concerning his interest in working for the city of Boston?

3. What type of school did Rachel Twymon keep her children from attending?

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

5. What was Colin Diver not sure he wanted to do after finishing his studies, according to Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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