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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Randolph move at the beginning of his career?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Orlando.
(c) Selma.
(d) Chicago.

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

4. During her teenage years, what was Eliot mostly caught up in?
(a) The labor movement.
(b) Religious fervor.
(c) Working as a volunteer nurse during WWII.
(d) The abolition movement.

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

6. What was Augustine's first step to reforming his own life?
(a) Leaving the Manichees.
(b) Giving up all his possessions.
(c) Making amends with his lover.
(d) Cutting ties with his mother.

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

8. In what situation was Marshall injured during his college years?
(a) In a car accident.
(b) In a hazing ritual.
(c) On a training maneuver.
(d) In a boating accident.

9. What kind of a romantic relationship did Augustine have for more than a decade?
(a) A strong marriage to one woman, Cassandra.
(b) An arranged marriage to a distant cousin.
(c) A close relationship with a concubine.
(d) A relationship with a common-law wife.

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

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

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

13. Who was Augustine's mother?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Zorastra.
(c) Monica.
(d) Ramona.

14. What fruit symbolized terrible judgment and pointless sin for Augustine?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Pears.
(c) Apples.
(d) Cherries.

15. What is arguably Eliot's most famous novel?
(a) A Tale of Two Cities.
(b) War and Peace.
(c) Middlemarch.
(d) Wuthering Heights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tactics did Rustin and other civil rights leaders adopt to try to accomplish their goals?

2. Which singer performed at the 1963 March on Washington?

3. What did Winston Churchill do when he visited Marshall in the hospital during his final illness?

4. Who was Marshall's early biographer?

5. Where did Augustine travel when he was 17?

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