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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two types of virtues does Brooks compare and contrast in the Introduction?
(a) Country virtues and city virtues.
(b) Career virtues and family virtues.
(c) Resume virtues and eulogy virtues.
(d) True virtues and false virtues.

2. What was one tactic Eisenhower used when he was irritated with someone as a way of controlling his anger?
(a) He recorded himself giving the person a piece of his mind.
(b) He talked to his wife about it.
(c) He wrote their name on a piece of paper and threw it in the trash.
(d) He went on hikes to relax.

3. Immanuel Kant once wrote that no straight thing was ever made out of which of the following?
(a) A sinner's wishes.
(b) The crooked timber of humanity.
(c) Cedar wood.
(d) An egotistical personality.

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

5. What kind of illness did Perkins' husband suffer from?
(a) Depression and other mental health issues.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Cystic Fibrosis.
(d) Polio.

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

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

8. What terms does Brooks use to describe a life of humility versus a life of egotism in Chapter 1?
(a) Big Lies and Little Lies.
(b) Big Me and Little Me.
(c) Big Life and Little Life.
(d) Big river and Little River.

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

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

11. Who was one of the people Perkins associate with in Greenwich Village?
(a) James Lewis.
(b) Carl Lewis.
(c) Sinclair Lewis.
(d) John Lewis.

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

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

14. In Chapter 1, Brooks writes that the struggle against the weakness in yourself is never which of the following?
(a) An easy struggle.
(b) A worthwhile struggle.
(c) A paid struggle.
(d) A solitary struggle.

15. What biblical reference does Brooks use to describe two opposing sides of human nature?
(a) Jesus I and Jesus II.
(b) Mary and Joseph.
(c) Moses and Job.
(d) Adam I and Adam II.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one characteristic that people who are calm and centered in their lives exhibit, according to Brooks in the Introduction?

2. At what age did Ida Eisenhower leave her domestic job to strike out on her own and enroll in high school?

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

4. Who did Ida Eisenhower marry?

5. Brooks quotes writer Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn as saying the line separating good and evil passes through what place?

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