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

2. In what situation was Marshall injured during his college years?
(a) In a car accident.
(b) On a training maneuver.
(c) In a boating accident.
(d) In a hazing ritual.

3. What fruit symbolized terrible judgment and pointless sin for Augustine?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Pears.
(c) Cherries.
(d) Apples.

4. Which singer performed at the 1963 March on Washington?
(a) Margaret Weiss.
(b) Aretha Franklin.
(c) Nina Simone.
(d) Mahalia Jackson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To which sect did Augustine belong as a young man?

2. What tactics did Rustin and other civil rights leaders adopt to try to accomplish their goals?

3. What is arguably Eliot's most famous novel?

4. What do biographers often attribute Eliot's messy romantic life to?

5. Which of the following facets of human nature fascinated Augustine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What significant event during the Civil Rights era did Rustin help to organize and execute?

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