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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of apparel did Dwight Eisenhower often wear when he was in a foul temper?
2. Brooks quotes writer Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn as saying the line separating good and evil passes through what place?
3. What did Perkins' grandmother tell her to do when social disaster strikes?
4. Where did Dwight Eisenhower grow up?
5. What was Day fascinated with as an adolescent, according to Brooks?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Brooks describe Adam I in the Introduction?
2. What were some of Ida Eishenhower's early life struggles?
3. What is Eisenhower's farewell speech when he left the presidency still remembered for today?
4. Why did Ida Eisenhower forbid dancing, card games, and drinking in her home?
5. What did Viktor Frankl tell potential suicides in the concentration camp during WWII?
6. Why did Dorothy Day move to New York at age 18 and what kind of work did she end up doing at first?
7. What was a tactic Dwight Eisenhower used to manage his anger and emotions that involved writing?
8. What two types of virtues does Brooks open the book by laying out the differences between?
9. Why did Frances Perkins decide to dress like an older mother when dealing with male members of congress?
10. What offense was Day arrested and jailed for in 1917?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How and why did A. Philip Randolph change his opinions and attitudes towards Communism, and how did this change affect his work in the Civil Rights movement? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 2
What does Brooks describe as Dorothy Day's most significant internal struggle? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
How did the writer George Eliot's (born Mary Anne Evans) life and writings change dramatically after her relationship with George Henry Lewes developed? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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