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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 George Eliot's given name at birth?
(a) Jane Eyre.
(b) Mary Anne Evans.
(c) Janet Sparks.
(d) Katherine Michaels.

2. In which work of Eliot's did she write of her disdain for "men of maxims"?
(a) Adam Bede.
(b) The Mill on the Floss.
(c) Middlemarch.
(d) Jane Eyre.

3. What significant civil rights event did Rustin help plan and execute?
(a) The Montgomery Bus Boycott.
(b) The 1963 March on Washington.
(c) The church protests.
(d) The sit-in at lunch counters.

4. What is the title of Augustine's seminal written work?
(a) Rapture.
(b) Sin and Temptation.
(c) Confessions.
(d) Contentment in God.

5. What did Sara Jane Lippincot say about Eliot's smile?
(a) It was rare, beautiful, and indescribable.
(b) It seemed more angry than mirthful.
(c) It seemed disingenuous.
(d) It was frightening.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did George Marshall refuse to keep a diary?

2. What was Augustine's first step to reforming his own life?

3. What kind of a romantic relationship did Augustine have for more than a decade?

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

5. What did writer George Eliot say a human life should be well-rooted in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Bayard Rustin's most significant personal flaw?

2. How was Marshall affected by his wife's sudden death?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did George Marshall humiliate his father when he was a young boy?

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