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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 9 - 10).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did both Johnny Unitas and Joe Namath grow up?
(a) The Pacific Northwest.
(b) Western Pennsylvania.
(c) The Midwest.
(d) Southern Florida.

2. Which mayor offered Randolph a job in the 1930s?
(a) Mayor George Pataki.
(b) Mayor Mario Cuomo.
(c) Mayor Rudolph Guiliani.
(d) Mayor Fiorello La Guadria.

3. What company did Randolph work very hard to help unionize?
(a) The Pullman Company.
(b) The Aster Company.
(c) The Vanderbilt Company.
(d) The Rockefeller Company.

4. What significant civil rights event did Rustin help plan and execute?
(a) The sit-in at lunch counters.
(b) The church protests.
(c) The 1963 March on Washington.
(d) The Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Eliot finally end up in a long, stable romantic relationship with?

2. Who raised Rustin?

3. What did Dwight Eisenhower warn Americans about in his farewell speech when he left the presidency?

4. Who does Augustine encounter in Milan that changes his outlook on happiness and purpose?

5. Which magazine published thinly-veiled fictionalized versions of speeches of parliament in 1738 that Johnson wrote?

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