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

2. What did Perkins' daughter once do as an adult that embarrassed Perkins?
(a) Wore wildly inappropriate attire to a society event.
(b) Eloped.
(c) Appeared drunk at a wedding.
(d) Spent all her money and ended up in jail.

3. How many times was Day arrested?
(a) Eight times.
(b) Four times.
(c) Twice.
(d) Dozens of times.

4. What well-known war correspondent's work did the radio program Brooks describes in Chapter 1 feature?
(a) Ernie Pyle.
(b) Carl Bernstein.
(c) David Halberstam.
(d) David Mitchell.

5. What does Brooks compare self-control to?
(a) Sunglasses on a cloudy day.
(b) A communal concert.
(c) A muscle that tires easily.
(d) A plant that needs water and tending.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the radical newspaper where Day got her first job?

3. In Chapter 2, what tragic historical event inspires Frances Perkins to begin her life of activism?

4. What is the title of William James' treatise that Brooks reference in Chapter 3?

5. What does Brooks say his book is about in his introduction?

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