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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 7 - 8).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event did Randolph plan to organize in 1941 to highlight the discrimination against blacks in the workforce?
(a) A giant march on washington.
(b) A sit-in at lunch counters.
(c) A bus boycott in Alabama.
(d) A sit-in at churches across the country.

2. What trait does Brooks say Randolph exuded, in the same way that Marshall had?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Self-mastery.
(c) Anger.
(d) Intellect.

3. What is arguably Eliot's most famous novel?
(a) A Tale of Two Cities.
(b) Wuthering Heights.
(c) War and Peace.
(d) Middlemarch.

4. Where did Randolph move at the beginning of his career?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Orlando.
(c) Selma.
(d) Chicago.

5. Who raised Rustin?
(a) His mother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His older brother.
(d) His grandparents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Bayard Rustin grow up?

2. During her teenage years, what was Eliot mostly caught up in?

3. When was Augustine born?

4. Which mayor offered Randolph a job in the 1930s?

5. What W.H. Auden poem does Brooks reference to help describe Eliot's decision to be with her life-long romantic partner?

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