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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 did Day name her daughter?

2. What is the title of William James' treatise that Brooks reference in Chapter 3?

3. Who sent Brooks an email responding to a column he wrote that Brooks says explains the mythology of his book?

4. What happens to Perkins in 1939 that tests her resilience?

5. What did Ida Eisenhower do after losing a son named Paul?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two types of virtues does Brooks open the book by laying out the differences between?

2. What offense was Day arrested and jailed for in 1917?

3. How does Brooks define the so-called "Big Me" culture?

4. How does Brooks describe Adam II in the Introduction?

5. What was a tactic Dwight Eisenhower used to manage his anger and emotions that involved writing?

6. What was Hull House modeled after?

7. Why did Perkins take a job teaching at Cornell University in 1957 although the pay was very little?

8. What historic event happened when Dorothy Day was 8 years old?

9. Why did Ida Eisenhower forbid dancing, card games, and drinking in her home?

10. Why did Frances Perkins decide to dress like an older mother when dealing with male members of congress?

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

How does the football player Joe Namath reflect what Brooks refers to at several points in the book as the ideals of the "Little Me"? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the differences, as Brooks defines them, between vocation and career.

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