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

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

3. Which of the following did Augustine write about greatly fearing?
(a) His depression.
(b) His own hidden parts.
(c) His mother.
(d) His temper.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who raised Rustin?

2. What, according to Brooks, is one key paradox of pride?

3. What privilege was conferred upon Augustine at a very young age?

4. What did Marshall believe one must do the less he agreed with the policies of his superiors?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of attitude did Marshall have towards institutions, according to Brooks?

2. How did Marshall win over his classmates at VMI?

3. What was Augustine's relationship with his mother like?

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

5. How did Virginia Woolf characterize Eliot's work?

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

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

8. What significant event in 1941 was A. Philip Randolph instrumental in organizing, but eventually called off?

9. For Augustine, what did the stealing of the pears symbolize?

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

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