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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 7 - 8).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What significant federal program was Perkins an advocate for?
(a) The Americans With Disabilities Act.
(b) The New Deal.
(c) The Affordable Care Act.
(d) The Jobs and Raises Act.

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

3. Which religious figure and writer does Brooks reference in the very beginning of the Introduction?
(a) Pope John Paul II.
(b) Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik.
(c) Rabbi Andrew Wyelin.
(d) Pope Pius IV.

4. How does Brooks describe Dwight Eisenhower's father?
(a) Solitary and difficult.
(b) Gregarious and outspoken.
(c) Flighty and undependable.
(d) Gentle and honest.

5. What do biographers often attribute Eliot's messy romantic life to?
(a) The fact that Eliot was an orphan.
(b) The absence of maternal love.
(c) The fraught relationship Eliot had with her brother.
(d) Eliot's extreme shyness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What privilege was conferred upon Augustine at a very young age?

2. What university did Perkins teach at towards the end of her life?

3. In which work of Eliot's did she write of her disdain for "men of maxims"?

4. What did Ida Eisenhower study in college?

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

(see the answer key)

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