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

2. What does Chapter 13 say about Colin's ambition?
(a) He wanted out of politics.
(b) He wanted to be governor.
(c) He wanted to go to Congress.
(d) He was interested in Boston's success.

3. What did Colin notice while driving the South End ?
(a) Kids of different ethnicities playing together.
(b) Drug dealers.
(c) Prostitutes.
(d) Good deals on homes.

4. Who or what did Bernie Kirk, Alice's father, not support despite of roots in his district?
(a) Martin Luther King.
(b) Joseph P. Kennedy.
(c) Kevin White.
(d) The Republican party.

5. What was John McKechnie's profession?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Physician.
(c) Trader.
(d) Farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who employed the Bennefields after they were freed following the Civil War?

2. Who was Joseph McKechnie?

3. What does Chapter 5 say the Jenkins family had been?

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

5. Where did Alice McGoff work according to Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happened to Rachel Twymon, in Chapter 2?

4. What projects did Colin work on, in Chapter 13, and how did Colin compare himself with the Boston mayor?

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

6. How did the Boston School Committee react to a case study?

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

8. Who was informed of the King assassination, at the start of Chapter 4?

9. What happened to Rachel?

10. Why were people buying property in the South End area?

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