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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Marshall believe one must do the less he agreed with the policies of his superiors?
(a) Try to persuade those superiors that there is a better path.
(b) Go to the press and let reporters know what was happening was wrong.
(c) Quit and do more worthy work.
(d) Try even harder to help them accomplish those policies.

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

5. Who offered to marry Rustin?
(a) Dorothy Day.
(b) Helen Winnemore.
(c) Lily Perkins.
(d) Jane Addams.

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

7. What job does Brooks write that Marshall must have been devastated not to have gotten from Roosevelt?
(a) Joint Chiefs of Staff of the military.
(b) Secretary of Defense.
(c) Secretary of State.
(d) Supreme Commander of Operation Overlord in France during WWII.

8. What did Winston Churchill do when he visited Marshall in the hospital during his final illness?
(a) Spoke to the doctors about new avenues for medical care.
(b) Consoled Marshall's son.
(c) Brought flowers and chocolates.
(d) Weeped at the doorway.

9. To which sect did Augustine belong as a young man?
(a) The Jehovah's Witnesses.
(b) The Israelites.
(c) The Trojans.
(d) The Manichees.

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

11. What trait does Brooks say made it hard for Marshall to develop friendships?
(a) His lack of self-confidence.
(b) His painful shyness.
(c) His lack of a sense of humor.
(d) His formality.

12. 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.

13. What pacifist organization did Rustin join after moving to Harlem?
(a) The Non-Violent Coalition of States.
(b) The Priory of Zion.
(c) The Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
(d) The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR).

14. Why did George Marshall refuse to keep a diary?
(a) He did not like the smell of the common leather diaries of the day.
(b) He thought it would cause him to focus too much on himself.
(c) He did not like writing.
(d) He did not like reading.

15. What disgusted Marshall about President Roosevelt's reaction to his news that plans for the North African invasion during WWII was ready?
(a) President Roosevelt asked that the invasion happen before Election Day.
(b) President Roosevelt did not ask for a casualty count.
(c) President Roosevelt told Marshall to slow the plans down.
(d) President Roosevelt asked to be there so he could release photos to the press.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did writer George Eliot say a human life should be well-rooted in?

2. What job did Marshall take right after the end of WWII, even though he did not really want it?

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

4. What kind of funeral did Marshall want?

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

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