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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Revolution did Day celebrate?

2. Where did Day get her first rosary?

3. What did Day say she was confessing with this book?

4. How was Day related to Donald?

5. What kind of funeral did Rayna have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What went wrong between Raph and Rayna?

2. How did Day feel about Emma Goldman, and why?

3. How did Day’s family feel about religion growing up?

4. What did Day do the first time she visited the White House?

5. What was The Masses?

6. How did Day say she viewed this book at the beginning?

7. What was in the letter reprinted by Day?

8. How did Day’s father show his intolerance?

9. How did Day’s father treat his family?

10. What were the results of the agitations Day was involved in?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Day spent a lot of time at religious retreats. What did she do at these, and what made them so worthwhile to her?

Essay Topic 2

Day had a very interesting political journey. How did her political ideas change throughout the book, and what caused this?

Essay Topic 3

Purity is a main theme of this book. How is this theme presented, and why would this be so central in a plot like this?

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