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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chapter 9 say was outlawed in 1965?
(a) The de facto school segregation in Massachusetts.
(b) Forced desegregation.
(c) The busing system.
(d) Owning a gun.

2. What did Alice McGoff support, but was skeptical of when it moved to the north?
(a) The Black Panther movement.
(b) Martin Luther King's movement.
(c) Malcom X movement.
(d) Ted Kennedy's movement.

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

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

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

6. Who or what did Bernie Kirk, Alice's father, not support despite of roots in his district?
(a) The Republican party.
(b) Martin Luther King.
(c) Kevin White.
(d) Joseph P. Kennedy.

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

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

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

10. Where did John McKechnie move to after staying in Boston for a while?
(a) Maine.
(b) New York.
(c) Boston.
(d) Florida.

11. What organization worked to raise money and improve the condition in the African-American community in Boston?
(a) M.O.N.E.Y.
(b) C.A.S.H.
(c) P.O.O.R.
(d) F.U.N.D.

12. How did the Boston officials try to calm the African-American community after the assassination of Martin Luther King?
(a) Used the African-American leaders instead of the police.
(b) Used police.
(c) Called in the National Guard.
(d) Let the riots die out.

13. What was Colin Diver not sure he wanted to do after finishing his studies, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Be a Doctor.
(b) Get a job.
(c) Be part of the establishment.
(d) Work for himself.

14. What does Chapter 5 say the Jenkins family had been?
(a) A slave family.
(b) A plantation owner.
(c) A military family.
(d) A rich family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Louise Day Hicks want to get into public office?

2. Where did Colin live in Chapter 11?

3. What did Rachel decide to do, at the start of Chapter 12?

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

5. What college did Joan McKechnie attend?

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