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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, Brooks argues it is rare to meet someone today with what kind of a mindset?
(a) Service.
(b) Moral.
(c) Institutional.
(d) Religious.

2. What illness did Eliot nurse her mother throughout?
(a) Polio.
(b) Typhoid.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Breast cancer.

3. How old was Marshall's wife when she died?
(a) 80.
(b) 53.
(c) 43.
(d) 60.

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

5. What was Marshall's first assignment after the death of his wife?
(a) Professor at the War College.
(b) Leader of the Infantry School program at Fort Benning.
(c) Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe.
(d) Chief of Staff of the military.

6. What position did Augustine take in the later years of his life?
(a) Monk.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Pope.
(d) Postulant.

7. How did writer Henry James describe Eliot's physical appearance?
(a) As average.
(b) As the traditional ideal of beauty.
(c) As hideously ugly.
(d) As unconventionally beautiful.

8. When was Augustine born?
(a) 500.
(b) 354.
(c) 1345.
(d) 1650.

9. Who did Eliot finally end up in a long, stable romantic relationship with?
(a) Henry Wordsworth Longfellow.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) George Lewes.

10. Where did Bayard Rustin grow up?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) West Chester, Philadelphia.

11. In Chapter 5, what is a trait Brooks argues is common among modest people who achieve great success?
(a) They do not view failure as a negative thing.
(b) Someone once told them they were too stupid to do something, and they vowed to prove them wrong.
(c) They are extraordinarily intelligent.
(d) They are extraordinarily wealthy.

12. What event did Randolph plan to organize in 1941 to highlight the discrimination against blacks in the workforce?
(a) A bus boycott in Alabama.
(b) A giant march on washington.
(c) A sit-in at churches across the country.
(d) A sit-in at lunch counters.

13. What did Eliot's father become very successful in as a line of work?
(a) He was a writer.
(b) He was a chef.
(c) He was a land agent.
(d) He was a lawyer.

14. Which mayor offered Randolph a job in the 1930s?
(a) Mayor George Pataki.
(b) Mayor Mario Cuomo.
(c) Mayor Fiorello La Guadria.
(d) Mayor Rudolph Guiliani.

15. Who was Marshall's early biographer?
(a) William Frye.
(b) Florence Franklin.
(c) Michael Eisner.
(d) Eleanor Wright.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fruit symbolized terrible judgment and pointless sin for Augustine?

2. What factor contributed to Marshall's rise through the military ranks during the 1930s?

3. Which of the following traits did many people observe Eliot possessed?

4. Why did Augustine's mother Monica tell him it was not necessary to bury her in Africa?

5. What W.H. Auden poem does Brooks reference to help describe Eliot's decision to be with her life-long romantic partner?

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