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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the South End after it became a slum?
(a) It was revitalized.
(b) It was rebuilt.
(c) It was destroyed.
(d) It was abandoned.

2. What area did Colin live in?
(a) The Hety Project.
(b) The Long area.
(c) The Brighton area.
(d) The Gand Project.

3. For whom did Colin work, at the start of Chapter 13?
(a) Barney Frank.
(b) Sam Merrick
(c) Rosy O'Donnel.
(d) Kevin White.

4. What did Rachel decide to do, at the start of Chapter 12?
(a) Move out of the Orchard Park project.
(b) Find a new husband.
(c) Move out of Boston.
(d) Find a new job.

5. What was Alice McGoff's ethnicity?
(a) Mexican.
(b) African-American.
(c) Caucasian.
(d) Chinese-American.

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

7. When did Charles McKechnie die?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1907.

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

9. When did Colin become the assistant secretary in the state's Secretary of Consumer Affairs division?
(a) October 1973.
(b) October 1971.
(c) October 1974.
(d) October 1972.

10. What case was Judge Arthur Garrity assigned to, at the start of Chapter 14?
(a) Hick vs Hennigan.
(b) Morgan vs Hennigan.
(c) Morgan vs Board of Education.
(d) Tally vs City Hall.

11. Whom did Colin Diver speak to concerning his interest in working for the city of Boston?
(a) Kevin White.
(b) Barney Frank.
(c) Alice McGoff.
(d) Ted Kennedy.

12. 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.

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

14. What does Chapter 5 say about Quinnie having many of?
(a) Money.
(b) Addictions.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chapter 9 say about the views of Louise Day Hicks?

2. Where did the Jenkins son move for employment?

3. What does Chapter 10 say formed in Charleston during Alice McGoff's childhood?

4. Where were the two people when Chapter 2 opens?

5. When did Colin Diver graduate?

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