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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 remained loyal to Rustin and tried to help him stay involved in the Civil Rights movement?
(a) Rosa Parks.
(b) George Marshall.
(c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(d) A. Philip Randolph.

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

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

4. What did writer George Eliot say a human life should be well-rooted in?
(a) Love.
(b) A spot of native land.
(c) Purpose.
(d) Charity.

5. Where did Augustine travel when he was 17?
(a) Carthage.
(b) Paris.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Athens.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, what is a trait Brooks argues is common among modest people who achieve great success?

3. How did Eliot end her novel Middlemarch?

4. What position did Augustine take in the later years of his life?

5. According to Brooks, what did Augustine seem to believe humans were not capable of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In what ways were Eliot and George Lewes well-matched as a couple?

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

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

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

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

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

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