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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Alice unable to afford, according to Chapter 23?
(a) Medical care.
(b) Good schools for her children.
(c) Move to the suburbs.
(d) Food.

2. When did John McKechnie come to Boston, according to Chapter 7?
(a) 1785.
(b) 1753.
(c) 1755.
(d) 1790.

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

4. What does Chapter 10 say formed in Charleston during Alice McGoff's childhood?
(a) Unaffiliated political parties.
(b) Gangs.
(c) New neighborhoods.
(d) Anti-segregation movements.

5. What did Louise Day Hicks claim about the Boston schools?
(a) They were not segregated.
(b) They needed more money.
(c) They were segregated.
(d) They were the best in the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Danny McGoff watch from a corner, according to Chapter 15?

2. Where did the Powder Keg group originate?

3. Who were roaming the places where children were playing in the South End neighborhood, according to Chapter 22?

4. What did Rachel successfully do in August 1967?

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

(see the answer key)

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