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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whom did Colin Diver speak to concerning his interest in working for the city of Boston?
(a) Ted Kennedy.
(b) Alice McGoff.
(c) Kevin White.
(d) Barney Frank.

4. Whom did the Jenkins family migrate to Nova Scotia with?
(a) With their flock.
(b) Their friends.
(c) Their owners.
(d) Alone.

5. When did Colin become the assistant secretary in the state's Secretary of Consumer Affairs division?
(a) October 1974.
(b) October 1972.
(c) October 1973.
(d) October 1971.

6. What event does Chapter 9 say was an embarrassment for the Kennedy administration?
(a) The death of Robert Kennedy.
(b) The election of Nixon.
(c) A boycott of the Boston schools.
(d) The election of Louise Day Hicks.

7. How did Colin Diver avoid the draft?
(a) His father was a politician.
(b) By having two left feet.
(c) By being a student and a father.
(d) By pretending to be homosexual.

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

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

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

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

12. What was Alice McGoff's ethnicity?
(a) Chinese-American.
(b) African-American.
(c) Mexican.
(d) Caucasian.

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

14. Where did Colin live in Chapter 11?
(a) The suburbs.
(b) The Inner city.
(c) Charlestown.
(d) The South End.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What school did Rachel Twymon send her younger children to?

2. What did Colin and his wife want to do in the South End, according to Chapter 11?

3. What did Alice McGoff support, but was skeptical of when it moved to the north?

4. Who was Joseph McKechnie?

5. When did Owen Kirk move to Roodstown, according to Chapter 6?

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