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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 Day fascinated with as an adolescent, according to Brooks?
(a) Insects.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Modern music.
(d) Sex.

2. What does Brooks say, in Chapter 3, is the most powerful way of fighting sin?
(a) Living in a sweet, loving way.
(b) Giving to charity.
(c) Going to church.
(d) Practicing what you preach.

3. Which well-known WWII general did Dwight Eisenhower serve under and have a low opinion of?
(a) General Gerald Ford.
(b) General Michael Smith.
(c) General George Marshall.
(d) General Douglas MacArthur.

4. What did Perkins' grandmother tell her to do when social disaster strikes?
(a) Fight back.
(b) Take a vacation.
(c) Act as though nothing had happened.
(d) Write a newspaper column.

5. Brooks quotes writer Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn as saying the line separating good and evil passes through what place?
(a) eyes.
(b) States.
(c) Gardens.
(d) The human heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Dwight Eisenhower warn Americans about in his farewell speech when he left the presidency?

2. In Chapter 3, what word does Brooks argue has lost its power and intensity?

3. When did Day officially join the Catholic Church?

4. What biblical reference does Brooks use to describe two opposing sides of human nature?

5. What did Dwight Eisenhower say freedom as been defined as in his 1957 State of the Union Address?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Viktor Frankl tell potential suicides in the concentration camp during WWII?

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

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

4. Why was Day intensely annoyed with Forster Batterham during the time when she nursed his partner Nanette through her terminal illness?

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

6. What were some of Ida Eishenhower's early life struggles?

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

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

9. What two types of virtues does Brooks open the book by laying out the differences between?

10. What was Eisenhower's personal opinion of General Douglas MacArthur?

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