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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 in prison.
(c) They were in the crowd looting and roaming.
(d) They were dead.

2. Who was with Colin Diver when he was listening to radio reports on the riots in 1968?
(a) His father Joe.
(b) His friend Mike.
(c) His wife Joan.
(d) His sister Margaret.

3. When did Arthur Garrity become a judge?
(a) July 16, 1966.
(b) July 6, 1966.
(c) July 6, 1965.
(d) June 6, 1966.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the South End after it became a slum?

2. What was Alice McGoff's ethnicity?

3. What does Chapter 13 say about Colin's ambition?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Bernie Kirk feel about the Kennedy family?

2. What was the decision released on June 21, 1974?

3. Who was Dr. John McKechnie, according to Chapter 7?

4. What did Rachel Twymon do in August 1967, according to Chapter 12?

5. What did Colin do after he left his position at the mayor's office?

6. What formed in Charlestown during Alice McGoff's childhood, in Chapter 10?

7. Who was Colin Diver, according to Chapter 1 of Common Ground?

8. In Chapter 14, what judge was assigned to the civil rights case, Morgan v Hennigan?

9. Who was the Jenkins family, according to Chapter 5?

10. Who lived at the Bunker Hill housing project, according to Chapter 3?

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