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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 rebuilt.
(b) It was destroyed.
(c) It was revitalized.
(d) It was abandoned.

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

3. When did Colin Diver graduate?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1970.

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

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

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

7. What school did Rachel Twymon's children attend, according to Chapter 8?
(a) Gibson school.
(b) Charlestwon School.
(c) South End School.
(d) Boston High School.

8. 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.

9. What organization did Ralph Hoaglund found?
(a) C.V.S.
(b) M.N.U.
(c) C.B.S.
(d) T.D.K.

10. When did Owen Kirk move to Roodstown, according to Chapter 6?
(a) 1853.
(b) 1801.
(c) 1806.
(d) 1823.

11. Who employed the Bennefields after they were freed following the Civil War?
(a) The Whites.
(b) The Dreshams.
(c) The Divers.
(d) The McGoffs.

12. What was involved in the desegregation of the Boston school system?
(a) Creating a new school district.
(b) Disbanding the school board and schedule elections.
(c) Mandatory busing.
(d) Redesigning existing school districts.

13. What does Chapter 12 say about Colin and the Boston mayor?
(a) White took Colin under his wing.
(b) White did not like Colin.
(c) Colin barely saw him the first year.
(d) Colin hated White.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What category of people wanted to move to South End in the early 70s?

2. What type of school did Rachel Twymon keep her children from attending?

3. How did Chapter 9 start?

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

5. What was Colin Diver not sure he wanted to do after finishing his studies, according to Chapter 1?

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