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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. In Chapter 3, Brooks argues that sin is communal, but error is which of the following?
(a) Unnecessary.
(b) Heroic.
(c) Preventable.
(d) Individual.

2. To which sect did Augustine belong as a young man?
(a) The Jehovah's Witnesses.
(b) The Manichees.
(c) The Israelites.
(d) The Trojans.

3. What did Eliot's father become very successful in as a line of work?
(a) He was a lawyer.
(b) He was a land agent.
(c) He was a writer.
(d) He was a chef.

4. What job does Brooks write that Marshall must have been devastated not to have gotten from Roosevelt?
(a) Secretary of Defense.
(b) Secretary of State.
(c) Joint Chiefs of Staff of the military.
(d) Supreme Commander of Operation Overlord in France during WWII.

5. When did Day officially join the Catholic Church?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1927.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did George Marshall refuse to keep a diary?

3. Where did Dwight Eisenhower grow up?

4. How did Eliot meet the man who would become her life-long partner?

5. What is one of the things Brooks says love depends upon?

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