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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. Where did Bayard Rustin grow up?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York.
(d) West Chester, Philadelphia.

2. What position did Augustine take in the later years of his life?
(a) Monk.
(b) Postulant.
(c) Pope.
(d) Bishop.

3. What was Augustine's first step to reforming his own life?
(a) Making amends with his lover.
(b) Cutting ties with his mother.
(c) Leaving the Manichees.
(d) Giving up all his possessions.

4. What is one of the things Brooks says love depends upon?
(a) Vulnerability.
(b) Chance.
(c) Suspicion.
(d) Ego.

5. Whose house did Eliot live in for a time along with this person's wife?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Dr. Robert Brabant.
(c) Henry James.
(d) James Ford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did Marshall take right after the end of WWII, even though he did not really want it?

2. What significant civil rights event did Rustin help plan and execute?

3. Where did Augustine travel when he was 17?

4. What is one way in which Brooks defines Eliot?

5. Who remained loyal to Rustin and tried to help him stay involved in the Civil Rights movement?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What kinds of romantic relationships characterized Eliot's years as a young woman?

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

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

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

9. Why did Marshall lose the job of commander of the allied forces in Europe in 1943 to Eisenhower?

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

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