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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 did Ida Eisenhower study in college?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Writing.
(c) Law.
(d) Music.

2. What did Perkins' grandmother tell her to do when social disaster strikes?
(a) Write a newspaper column.
(b) Act as though nothing had happened.
(c) Fight back.
(d) Take a vacation.

3. What two types of virtues does Brooks compare and contrast in the Introduction?
(a) Country virtues and city virtues.
(b) Career virtues and family virtues.
(c) True virtues and false virtues.
(d) Resume virtues and eulogy virtues.

4. What was the nickname of the son Dwight Eisenhower lost to premature death?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Sport.
(c) Icky.
(d) Dave.

5. What was the title of Day's novel that was based on her early disordered life?
(a) The Eleventh Virgin.
(b) The Big Earthquake.
(c) The Day the Music Died.
(d) The Solitude of Activism.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Day die?

2. Who did Ida Eisenhower marry?

3. Kierkegaard once wrote that only the one who descends into the underworld does which of the following?

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

5. What did Day name her daughter?

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