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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Brooks quotes writer Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn as saying the line separating good and evil passes through what place?
(a) States.
(b) eyes.
(c) The human heart.
(d) Gardens.

2. What radio program inspired Brooks to write the book?
(a) Fresh Air.
(b) Command Performance.
(c) All Things Considered.
(d) Hot Jazz.

3. What cabinet-level position did Perkins hold during the Roosevelt years?
(a) Secretary of Commerce.
(b) Secretary of Trade.
(c) Secretary of Labor.
(d) Secretary of State.

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

5. What does Brooks say, in Chapter 3, is the most powerful way of fighting sin?
(a) Giving to charity.
(b) Going to church.
(c) Practicing what you preach.
(d) Living in a sweet, loving way.

6. What was Day fascinated with as an adolescent, according to Brooks?
(a) Insects.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Sex.
(d) Modern music.

7. Who was Dwight Eisenhower's vice president?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Gerald Ford.

8. What did Dwight Eisenhower say freedom as been defined as in his 1957 State of the Union Address?
(a) The opportunity for heroism.
(b) Nothing left to lose.
(c) The opportunity for self-discipline.
(d) An open road.

9. What is the title of William James' treatise that Brooks reference in Chapter 3?
(a) Habit.
(b) Sin.
(c) Love and Hate.
(d) Self-control.

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

11. What is the title of Kirstin Downey's biography about Perkins?
(a) The Calm Before the Storm.
(b) A Life in Activism.
(c) The Woman Behind the New Deal.
(d) My History.

12. What does Brooks say his book is about in his introduction?
(a) Job.
(b) Adam II.
(c) Careers.
(d) Jesus.

13. Who wrote a book about his experiences as a concentration camp prisoner during WWII?
(a) Rose Henderberg.
(b) Viktor Frankl.
(c) Rabbi Jacob Bateman.
(d) Alan Wisel.

14. In Chapter 3, what word does Brooks argue has lost its power and intensity?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Hate.
(c) Love.
(d) Sin.

15. Who led a factory strike in 1909 to try to help female industrial workers improve their work conditions?
(a) Frances Perkins.
(b) Rose Schneiderman.
(c) Dorothy Day.
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did an aide of Dwight Eisenhower's compare Eisenhower's temper to?

3. What did Perkins name her daughter?

4. What did Ida Eisenhower study in college?

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

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