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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was Joseph McKechnie?
(a) John's third yougest son.
(b) John's third oldest son.
(c) John's father.
(d) John's brother.

5. What type of school did Rachel Twymon keep her children from attending?
(a) Private schools.
(b) Desegregated schools.
(c) Segregated schools.
(d) Public schools.

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

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

8. What does Chapter 11 say the South End once was?
(a) The cheapest place for lodging in Boston.
(b) The most dangerous place in America.
(c) The east coast drug hub.
(d) The largest rooming house district of America.

9. What did Rachel successfully do in August 1967?
(a) Found a job.
(b) Found a husband.
(c) Moved in New York.
(d) Secured a SBA loan.

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

11. What performance did Rachel Twymon attend, at the start of Chapter 12?
(a) West Side Story.
(b) Bloom.
(c) Cats.
(d) Hello Dolly.

12. What degree(s) did Louise Day Hicks have?
(a) Education and law.
(b) Law.
(c) Business.
(d) Education and Psychology.

13. What did Rachel have trouble finding, at the start of Chapter 12?
(a) Tickets for Cats.
(b) Her children.
(c) A place in a bus.
(d) A taxi to take her home.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Colin Diver graduate?

2. What was involved in the desegregation of the Boston school system?

3. How old was Rachel when she first met Martin Luther King?

4. How many children did Alice McGoff have?

5. What was Frederick's daughter's name?

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