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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 Alice McGoff have?
(a) 9 children.
(b) 2 children.
(c) 3 children.
(d) 7 children.

2. What category of people wanted to move to South End in the early 70s?
(a) Teachers.
(b) African-Americans.
(c) Retirees.
(d) Young professionals.

3. What did Colin and his wife want to do in the South End, according to Chapter 11?
(a) Create a school.
(b) Create social services.
(c) Buy a house.
(d) Buy a store.

4. Why did Alice McGoff lose her income?
(a) The Navy yard closed.
(b) She was fired.
(c) Her alimony checks stopped coming.
(d) Her social security ran out.

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

6. Whom does Chapter 4 say was with Colin Diver when he listened to Mayor's White speech?
(a) Martin Black.
(b) David Mann.
(c) Marty Tram.
(d) Joan Diver.

7. How many children did Joseph McKechnie have?
(a) 1.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 9.

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

9. What event does Chapter 1 say affected Diver?
(a) The election of Nixon.
(b) The assassination of John F. Kennedy.
(c) The war in Vietnam.
(d) The assassination of Martin Luther King.

10. What school was Coline Diver attending in Chapter 1?
(a) Boston College School of Law.
(b) Boston College School of Medicine.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Harvard Law School.

11. Who was with Colin Diver when he was listening to radio reports on the riots in 1968?
(a) His friend Mike.
(b) His wife Joan.
(c) His sister Margaret.
(d) His father Joe.

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 was Colin working on, at the start of Chapter 13?
(a) Federal funding.
(b) School segregation.
(c) Sewage problems.
(d) Traffic congestion.

14. What position was Louise Day Hicks elected to in the spring of 1961?
(a) Sixth District Judge.
(b) Mayor.
(c) The Boston School Committee.
(d) Coroner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Colin Diver avoid the draft?

2. Who canceled James Brown's concert after the assassination of Martin Luther King?

3. What gang was Alice McGoff's son Danny a part of?

4. How did Chapter 9 start?

5. What does Chapter 5 say about Quinnie having many of?

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