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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 the crowd looting and roaming.
(c) They were in prison.
(d) They were at school.

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

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

5. What does Chapter 1 say many law school students were avoiding?
(a) The draft.
(b) Marrying.
(c) Work.
(d) The establishment.

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

7. What school did Rachel Twymon send her younger children to?
(a) St. Harvey's.
(b) St. Mary's.
(c) St. Vincent's.
(d) St. Patrick's.

8. When did John McKechnie come to Boston, according to Chapter 7?
(a) 1755.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1753.

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. What does Chapter 10 say formed in Charleston during Alice McGoff's childhood?
(a) New neighborhoods.
(b) Gangs.
(c) Anti-segregation movements.
(d) Unaffiliated political parties.

11. How did Chapter 9 start?
(a) With graduation at Cambell Junior high School.
(b) With the election of Nixon.
(c) With the assassination of Martin Luther King.
(d) With the end of the Vietnam War.

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

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Rachel Twymon notified of at the start of Chapter 2?

2. Who did Bernie Kirk marry, according to Chapter 6?

3. Who was informed of the assassination of Martin Luther King at the start of Chapter 4?

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

5. What city administration team did Colin play, in according to Chapter 11?

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