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

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

3. What is one way in which Brooks defines Eliot?
(a) As an abolitionist.
(b) As a puritan.
(c) As a meliorist.
(d) As a pacifist.

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

5. 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 to be there so he could release photos to the press.
(b) President Roosevelt asked that the invasion happen before Election Day.
(c) President Roosevelt told Marshall to slow the plans down.
(d) President Roosevelt did not ask for a casualty count.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trait does Brooks say Randolph exuded, in the same way that Marshall had?

2. What is one of the things Brooks says love depends upon?

3. What did Eliot's father become very successful in as a line of work?

4. Who did Eliot often dedicate her novels to?

5. Who was Augustine's mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of relationship did Mary Anne Evans (whose pen name was George Eliot) have with her mother?

2. In Chapter 7, what does David Brooks say is the difference between self-control and love?

3. What crisis did Eliot write about concerning women's situation in society in her novel Middlemarch?

4. What was the surprising outcome of Marshall's tense encounter with General Pershing in 1917?

5. What kind of devotion dominated Eliot's teenage years?

6. What was the main social consequence of Eliot's relationship with Lewes?

7. As a young woman, what causes a large rift between Eliot and her father?

8. What job did Marshall take in 1945 that he did not necessarily want but felt he had a responsibility to accept?

9. What sect's teachings did Augustine initially follow and then renounce?

10. What does Brooks imply is the impetus for Marshall's drive to succeed?

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