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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Chapters 3 - 4).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of William James' treatise that Brooks reference in Chapter 3?
(a) Love and Hate.
(b) Self-control.
(c) Habit.
(d) Sin.

2. Where did Perkins live in New York City with her husband?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Around Washington Square.
(c) The East Village.
(d) The Upper West Side.

3. Who sent Brooks an email responding to a column he wrote that Brooks says explains the mythology of his book?
(a) A veterinarian named Dave Jolly.
(b) A religious leader named Joel Jacobs.
(c) A writer named Emily Smith.
(d) A former teacher of Brooks' named Selena Jeffries.

4. What did Perkins name her daughter?
(a) Susanna.
(b) Cora.
(c) Maureen.
(d) Jane.

5. In Chapter 4, what kind of job did Dorothy Day's father have?
(a) He was a coal miner.
(b) He was a journalist.
(c) He was a doctor.
(d) He was a construction worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Perkins' grandmother tell her to do when social disaster strikes?

2. What kind of literature had a great impact on Day's thinking early in her adulthood?

3. Where was Ida Eisenhower born?

4. Which religious figure and writer does Brooks reference in the very beginning of the Introduction?

5. In Chapter 1, what does Brooks describe as the habit of a friend who works on self-improvement and who Brooks admires?

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