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

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

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

4. Where did Dwight Eisenhower grow up?
(a) Mobile, Alabama.
(b) Scranton, Pennsylvania.
(c) Abilene, Kansas.
(d) Columbus, Ohio.

5. What university did Perkins teach at towards the end of her life?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Florida State.
(c) Ohio State.
(d) Cornell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sent Brooks an email responding to a column he wrote that Brooks says explains the mythology of his book?

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

3. What did Dwight Eisenhower say freedom as been defined as in his 1957 State of the Union Address?

4. Who was one of the people Perkins associate with in Greenwich Village?

5. What was one tactic Eisenhower used when he was irritated with someone as a way of controlling his anger?

(see the answer key)

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