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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 5 - 6).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Kirstin Downey's biography about Perkins?
(a) The Calm Before the Storm.
(b) My History.
(c) A Life in Activism.
(d) The Woman Behind the New Deal.

2. Which skills helped win Day a college scholarship?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Latin and Greek.
(c) Debating.
(d) Writing.

3. Brooks quotes writer Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn as saying the line separating good and evil passes through what place?
(a) States.
(b) eyes.
(c) Gardens.
(d) The human heart.

4. Where did Marshall attend college?
(a) The Naval Institute.
(b) Virginia Military Academy.
(c) American University.
(d) West Point.

5. What was Day fascinated with as an adolescent, according to Brooks?
(a) Sex.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Insects.
(d) Modern music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Perkins' mother tell her as a young girl she should always wear?

2. Immanuel Kant once wrote that no straight thing was ever made out of which of the following?

3. What did Ida Eisenhower study in college?

4. In Chapter 5, what is a trait Brooks argues is common among modest people who achieve great success?

5. How old was Marshall's wife when she died?

(see the answer key)

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