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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Frances Perkins born?
(a) New York City.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Boston.

2. Which important political figure did Perkins assist early in his career?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(d) Charles Wilson.

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) Always have the best people around you.
(b) Never trust plans.
(c) Follow the commands of your superiors.
(d) Have at least three Plan Bs.

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

5. When did Day officially join the Catholic Church?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1927.

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

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

8. What was the title of Day's novel that was based on her early disordered life?
(a) The Solitude of Activism.
(b) The Eleventh Virgin.
(c) The Day the Music Died.
(d) The Big Earthquake.

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

10. What happens to Perkins in 1939 that tests her resilience?
(a) Her mother dies.
(b) She is the subject of impeachment proceedings.
(c) She is fired.
(d) Her husband dies.

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

12. Where was Ida Eisenhower born?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) The Hudson River Valley.
(c) New York City.
(d) The Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.

13. Where did Dwight Eisenhower grow up?
(a) Scranton, Pennsylvania.
(b) Abilene, Kansas.
(c) Mobile, Alabama.
(d) Columbus, Ohio.

14. Who did Ida Eisenhower marry?
(a) John.
(b) James.
(c) Laurence.
(d) David.

15. Where did Perkins live in New York City with her husband?
(a) The East Village.
(b) The Upper West Side.
(c) Around Washington Square.
(d) Harlem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of literature had a great impact on Day's thinking early in her adulthood?

2. What was the nickname of the son Dwight Eisenhower lost to premature death?

3. Who did Day have a child with?

4. Which president's wife used to caution him about using the word "I" in his speeches too often?

5. In Chapter 3, Brooks argues that sin is communal, but error is which of the following?

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