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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 did Day picket the White House for?

2. How many siblings did Day have?

3. Why was it strange that Day spent so much of her childhood alone?

4. What bothered Day about the people in the Episcopalian church?

5. What did Day NOT want to rely on while suffering in prison?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Day exposed to for the first time through her friendship with Raph and Reyna?

3. How did Day feel when she was exposed to Tolstoi?

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

5. What happened when Day read The Jungle?

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

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

8. What was The Masses?

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

10. What changed in Day’s life after the earthquake?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Many different political ideas are spoken of in this book. What are some of these ideas, and how do they relate to each other?

Essay Topic 3

Day described her journey to religion in this book. What was this journey like and how did it begin?

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