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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 Marshall attend college?
(a) West Point.
(b) The Naval Institute.
(c) Virginia Military Academy.
(d) American University.

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

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

4. Who did Eliot often dedicate her novels to?
(a) Henry James.
(b) George Lewes.
(c) Upton Sinclair.
(d) Sinclair Lewis.

5. Who does Augustine encounter in Milan that changes his outlook on happiness and purpose?
(a) A prostitute.
(b) The emperor.
(c) A long-lost brother.
(d) A beggar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did Eliot fall in love with when she was 32?

3. Which mayor offered Randolph a job in the 1930s?

4. Who was Augustine's mother?

5. What company did Randolph work very hard to help unionize?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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