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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Owen Kirk move to Roodstown, according to Chapter 6?
(a) 1801.
(b) 1806.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1853.

2. What does Chapter 9 say about the views of Louise Day Hicks?
(a) They were common.
(b) They were highly regarded.
(c) They were racist.
(d) They created a lot of opposition.

3. When did Arthur Garrity become a judge?
(a) July 6, 1965.
(b) June 6, 1966.
(c) July 6, 1966.
(d) July 16, 1966.

4. Where did Alice McGoff work according to Chapter 3?
(a) She was unemployed.
(b) A clothing store.
(c) Charlestown Navy Yard Officers Club.
(d) Boston City Hall.

5. Why did Louise Day Hicks want to get into public office?
(a) To prevent school integration.
(b) To eventually get to Congress.
(c) To carry on her father's work.
(d) To institute school segregation.

6. How old was Rachel when she first met Martin Luther King?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 19.
(d) 17.

7. Who did Bernie Kirk marry, according to Chapter 6?
(a) Janette Spott.
(b) Catherine Gertt.
(c) Gertrude Wolfberg.
(d) Sophia Morruw.

8. 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 had changed.
(c) They were reexamined them after working for White.
(d) They had diminished.

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

10. What gang was Alice McGoff's son Danny a part of?
(a) The Dark Shrine.
(b) The 66.
(c) The Eagles.
(d) The Green Store.

11. Where were the two people when Chapter 2 opens?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Boston City Hall.
(c) The Roxbury Orchard housing project.
(d) South End.

12. Where did Colin live in Chapter 11?
(a) The Inner city.
(b) The South End.
(c) Charlestown.
(d) The suburbs.

13. What was John McKechnie's profession?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Physician.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Trader.

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

15. What did Rachel Twymon not know about four of her sons when she opened her store one morning in Chapter 2?
(a) They were in prison.
(b) They were in the crowd looting and roaming.
(c) They were at school.
(d) They were dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Joseph McKechnie have?

2. Whom does Chapter 4 say was with Colin Diver when he listened to Mayor's White speech?

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

4. What was Rachel Twymon notified of at the start of Chapter 2?

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

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