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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 pacifist organization did Rustin join after moving to Harlem?
(a) The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR).
(b) The Non-Violent Coalition of States.
(c) The Priory of Zion.
(d) The Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

2. What kind of literature had a great impact on Day's thinking early in her adulthood?
(a) Greek.
(b) British.
(c) Russian.
(d) Italian.

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

4. Which well-known WWII general did Dwight Eisenhower serve under and have a low opinion of?
(a) General Michael Smith.
(b) General George Marshall.
(c) General Gerald Ford.
(d) General Douglas MacArthur.

5. In the Introduction, how does Brooks say people of great virtue make other people feel?
(a) Angry.
(b) Suspicious.
(c) Funnier and smarter.
(d) Smaller and less intelligent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Day have a child with?

2. What kind of illness did Marshall's wife suffer from?

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

4. What job does Brooks write that Marshall must have been devastated not to have gotten from Roosevelt?

5. Who founded Hull House?

(see the answer key)

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