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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 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.

2. In which work of Eliot's did she write of her disdain for "men of maxims"?
(a) Jane Eyre.
(b) Middlemarch.
(c) Adam Bede.
(d) The Mill on the Floss.

3. How did writer Henry James describe Eliot's physical appearance?
(a) As the traditional ideal of beauty.
(b) As average.
(c) As unconventionally beautiful.
(d) As hideously ugly.

4. In Chapter 3, Brooks argues that sin is communal, but error is which of the following?
(a) Heroic.
(b) Individual.
(c) Preventable.
(d) Unnecessary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Eliot often dedicate her novels to?

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

3. Where did Augustine travel when he was 17?

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

5. What job does Brooks write that Marshall must have been devastated not to have gotten from Roosevelt?

(see the answer key)

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