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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the title of Day's novel that was based on her early disordered life?
(a) The Solitude of Activism.
(b) The Eleventh Virgin.
(c) The Big Earthquake.
(d) The Day the Music Died.

2. What does Brooks say his book is about in his introduction?
(a) Job.
(b) Adam II.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Careers.

3. What biblical reference does Brooks use to describe two opposing sides of human nature?
(a) Mary and Joseph.
(b) Jesus I and Jesus II.
(c) Adam I and Adam II.
(d) Moses and Job.

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

5. What does Brooks compare self-control to?
(a) A plant that needs water and tending.
(b) Sunglasses on a cloudy day.
(c) A communal concert.
(d) A muscle that tires easily.

Short Answer Questions

1. What significant federal program was Perkins an advocate for?

2. At what age did Ida Eisenhower leave her domestic job to strike out on her own and enroll in high school?

3. Which skills helped win Day a college scholarship?

4. What happens to Perkins in 1939 that tests her resilience?

5. Brooks quotes writer Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn as saying the line separating good and evil passes through what place?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Brooks define the so-called "Big Me" culture?

2. Why did Perkins take a job teaching at Cornell University in 1957 although the pay was very little?

3. What event in young Dwight Eisenhower's life prompted his mother to read him a Bible verse about conquering his own soul that had a great impact on his adult life?

4. What is the main difference between a career and a vocation as Brooks describes it?

5. In Chapter 1, what trait does Brooks feel was more common in most people in the WWII-era than it is today?

6. What offense was Day arrested and jailed for in 1917?

7. How does Brooks describe Adam II in the Introduction?

8. How does Brooks describe Adam I in the Introduction?

9. What virtue does Brooks say is generally misunderstood in Chapter 4?

10. Why did Frances Perkins decide to dress like an older mother when dealing with male members of congress?

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