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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 9 - 10).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What significant civil rights event did Rustin help plan and execute?
(a) The 1963 March on Washington.
(b) The sit-in at lunch counters.
(c) The church protests.
(d) The Montgomery Bus Boycott.

4. What was the nickname of the son Dwight Eisenhower lost to premature death?
(a) Icky.
(b) Dave.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) Sport.

5. Where did the writer Michel de Montaigne grow up?
(a) As estate near Bordeaux.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rome.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Perkins' mother tell her as a young girl she should always wear?

2. Where did Dwight Eisenhower grow up?

3. Who was Dwight Eisenhower's vice president?

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

5. Which important political figure did Perkins assist early in his career?

(see the answer key)

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