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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many children did Joseph McKechnie have?
(a) 6.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 9.
2. What did Rachel decide to do, at the start of Chapter 12?
(a) Move out of the Orchard Park project.
(b) Find a new job.
(c) Find a new husband.
(d) Move out of Boston.
3. What degree(s) did Louise Day Hicks have?
(a) Education and Psychology.
(b) Law.
(c) Education and law.
(d) Business.
4. What event does Chapter 1 say affected Diver?
(a) The election of Nixon.
(b) The war in Vietnam.
(c) The assassination of Martin Luther King.
(d) The assassination of John F. Kennedy.
5. What was Alice McGoff's ethnicity?
(a) African-American.
(b) Mexican.
(c) Caucasian.
(d) Chinese-American.
6. What was Louise Day Hicks known to be?
(a) An alcoholic.
(b) A liberal.
(c) A saint.
(d) A bigot.
7. 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 at school.
(c) They were dead.
(d) They were in the crowd looting and roaming.
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 diminished.
(c) They had changed.
(d) They were reexamined them after working for White.
9. For whom did Colin work, at the start of Chapter 13?
(a) Sam Merrick
(b) Barney Frank.
(c) Kevin White.
(d) Rosy O'Donnel.
10. What was Rachel Twymon notified of at the start of Chapter 2?
(a) Her husband died.
(b) Her store was vandalized.
(c) Her store was burned down.
(d) Her son was arrested.
11. How did Colin Diver avoid the draft?
(a) By being a student and a father.
(b) By pretending to be homosexual.
(c) By having two left feet.
(d) His father was a politician.
12. What happened to the South End after it became a slum?
(a) It was rebuilt.
(b) It was abandoned.
(c) It was destroyed.
(d) It was revitalized.
13. What position did Colin formulate after taking on more responsibilities at the Boston City Hall?
(a) The U-BURG.
(b) The B-BURG.
(c) The G-BURG.
(d) The C-BURG.
14. What did Colin notice while driving the South End ?
(a) Kids of different ethnicities playing together.
(b) Good deals on homes.
(c) Drug dealers.
(d) Prostitutes.
15. What does Chapter 9 say was outlawed in 1965?
(a) Owning a gun.
(b) The de facto school segregation in Massachusetts.
(c) The busing system.
(d) Forced desegregation.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Colin Diver graduate?
2. What does Chapter 9 say about the views of Louise Day Hicks?
3. What did Colin learn about the Boston mayor's ambitions?
4. What event does Chapter 9 say was an embarrassment for the Kennedy administration?
5. Whom did Colin Diver speak to concerning his interest in working for the city of Boston?
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