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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 kind of publication was the New York Call?

2. What haunted Day throughout her life?

3. What ethnicity was Ralph?

4. What book opened Day’s eyes up about the Industrial movement?

5. How did Day feel about God in her youth?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Day imprisoned for?

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

4. What was The Masses?

5. What did Day write about mostly when she first moved to New York?

6. What was in the letter reprinted by Day?

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

8. How did Day feel when she first read the Bible?

9. What caused Day’s mother to have to take on more work at home?

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

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

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

The war changed a lot in Day’s life. How did it do this, and how did she respond to these changes?

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