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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What newspaper did Day found?
(a) The Catholic Worker.
(b) The San Francisco Chronicle.
(c) The Modesto Bee.
(d) The Catholic Light.

2. What university did Perkins teach at towards the end of her life?
(a) Ohio State.
(b) Florida State.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Columbia.

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

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

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

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

7. What did Ida Eisenhower study in college?
(a) Writing.
(b) Law.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Music.

8. What did Perkins' daughter once do as an adult that embarrassed Perkins?
(a) Wore wildly inappropriate attire to a society event.
(b) Spent all her money and ended up in jail.
(c) Appeared drunk at a wedding.
(d) Eloped.

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

10. At what age did Ida Eisenhower leave her domestic job to strike out on her own and enroll in high school?
(a) 20.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 13.

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

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

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

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

15. What did Ida Eisenhower forbid in her house?
(a) Cursing.
(b) Exercising.
(c) Singing and darts.
(d) Drinking and dancing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Day name her daughter?

2. When did Day officially join the Catholic Church?

3. In Chapter 2, what tragic historical event inspires Frances Perkins to begin her life of activism?

4. Where was Frances Perkins born?

5. In Chapter 3, Eisenhower is quoted as saying he tried to remember to rely on planning, but to also do which of the following?

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