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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What W.H. Auden poem does Brooks reference to help describe Eliot's decision to be with her life-long romantic partner?
(a) Leap Before You Look.
(b) Life on the Edge.
(c) Oh How a Rose.
(d) Taking the Plunge.

2. Which of the following facets of human nature fascinated Augustine?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Memory.
(d) Jealousy.

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

4. According to Brooks, what did Augustine seem to believe humans were not capable of?
(a) Ordering their desires on their own.
(b) Sinning.
(c) Being content.
(d) Truly loving another human being.

5. Whose house did Eliot live in for a time along with this person's wife?
(a) James Ford.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) Dr. Robert Brabant.

6. What company did Randolph work very hard to help unionize?
(a) The Aster Company.
(b) The Pullman Company.
(c) The Rockefeller Company.
(d) The Vanderbilt Company.

7. What tactics did Rustin and other civil rights leaders adopt to try to accomplish their goals?
(a) Non-violent resistance.
(b) Attacking police stations.
(c) Carrying out damage to properties.
(d) Direct confrontation.

8. Which general visited Marshall's unit in October 1917?
(a) General Douglas MacArthur.
(b) General Dwight Eisenhower.
(c) General John Pershing.
(d) General John Jacobs.

9. What led to Rustin's public disgrace?
(a) His gambling addiction.
(b) His embezzling of donated funds.
(c) His drug addiction.
(d) His arrests for homosexual acts.

10. Where did Eliot travel on July 20, 1854?
(a) To Paris.
(b) To Rome.
(c) To Antwerp.
(d) To Dublin.

11. What kind of funeral did Marshall want?
(a) A low-key, humble event with no fanfare.
(b) A huge state funeral.
(c) A funeral with the highest military honors and a fly-over by the Blue Angels.
(d) Marshall wanted to be cremated and buried at sea.

12. Which singer performed at the 1963 March on Washington?
(a) Margaret Weiss.
(b) Nina Simone.
(c) Mahalia Jackson.
(d) Aretha Franklin.

13. What do biographers often attribute Eliot's messy romantic life to?
(a) The fact that Eliot was an orphan.
(b) Eliot's extreme shyness.
(c) The fraught relationship Eliot had with her brother.
(d) The absence of maternal love.

14. What is the title of Augustine's seminal written work?
(a) Sin and Temptation.
(b) Confessions.
(c) Rapture.
(d) Contentment in God.

15. How did his wife's death change Marshall's approach to life?
(a) He withdrew from public life and languished in solidarity.
(b) He went to medical school.
(c) He left the military and took a new job managing a charity.
(d) He became less taciturn and more social.

Short Answer Questions

1. During her teenage years, what was Eliot mostly caught up in?

2. How did writer Henry James describe Eliot's physical appearance?

3. Who remained loyal to Rustin and tried to help him stay involved in the Civil Rights movement?

4. What significant civil rights event did Rustin help plan and execute?

5. Who did Eliot fall in love with when she was 32?

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