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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What comforted Day the most while in prison?
(a) Daily prayer
(b) Writing
(c) Talking to other women
(d) A Bible

2. How old was Day when she began reading John Wesley?
(a) 13
(b) 11
(c) 14
(d) 12

3. What kind of sins did Day not like using at confession?
(a) Serious
(b) Commandments
(c) Societal
(d) Venial

4. What haunted Day throughout her life?
(a) God
(b) Love
(c) The Devil
(d) Pain

5. How long did Day work at the hospital?
(a) 1 year
(b) 8 years
(c) 2 years
(d) 3 years

6. Who did Day serve after living through a natural disaster?
(a) Politicians
(b) Poor people
(c) Veterans
(d) Doctors

7. What did Day picket the White House for?
(a) The end of the war
(b) Combined race schools
(c) Suffrage
(d) Fair wages

8. How often did the New York Call go to print?
(a) Biweekly
(b) Daily
(c) Monthly
(d) Weekly

9. What philosophy was Day’s first as a child?
(a) The philosophy of love
(b) The philosophy of faith
(c) The philosophy of service
(d) The philosophy of work

10. What kind of stories did Day like to hear as a child?
(a) Family stories
(b) Fairy tales
(c) Biographies
(d) Nature stories

11. What did Day’s father not allow in his home?
(a) Television
(b) Any of these things
(c) Visitors
(d) Newspapers

12. How long was the first part of Day’s life?
(a) 20 years
(b) 10 years
(c) 15 years
(d) 25 years

13. Why did the people at the New York Call rarely attack religion?
(a) They knew their audience
(b) They knew too little about it
(c) They were indifferent
(d) It was sacred

14. Why did Day say her father was so racist?
(a) He fought in the war
(b) He grew up in the South
(c) He had some bad past experiences
(d) He worked in the news industry

15. What kind of people ran The Masses?
(a) Soldiers
(b) Professors
(c) Prisoners
(d) Students

Short Answer Questions

1. What drew Day to Catholicism?

2. Who did Mary tell Day stories about?

3. How did Day’s father feel about the radical movement?

4. When Day was in prison, what did she say really kept her from being free?

5. How did Day dress while working at the New York Call?

(see the answer keys)

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