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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. Who did Day have a child with?
(a) Sinclair Lewis.
(b) Forster Batterham.
(c) David Farber.
(d) Daniel Day Smith.

2. Who founded Hull House?
(a) Frances Perkins.
(b) Dorothy Day.
(c) Jane Addams.
(d) Jane Eyre.

3. In Chapter 3, Eisenhower is quoted as saying he tried to remember to rely on planning, but to also do which of the following?
(a) Never trust plans.
(b) Always have the best people around you.
(c) Have at least three Plan Bs.
(d) Follow the commands of your superiors.

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

5. What did an aide of Dwight Eisenhower's compare Eisenhower's temper to?
(a) The sun.
(b) A five-alarm fire.
(c) A Bessemer furnace.
(d) Molten lava.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brooks say, in Chapter 3, is the most powerful way of fighting sin?

2. What biblical reference does Brooks use to describe two opposing sides of human nature?

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

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

5. Who was Frances Perkins married to?

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