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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. Harry Emerson Fosdick once wrote that the beginning of worth-while living involves a confrontation with whom?

2. Who did Day have a child with?

3. Which well-known WWII general did Dwight Eisenhower serve under and have a low opinion of?

4. What was one tactic Eisenhower used when he was irritated with someone as a way of controlling his anger?

5. Immanuel Kant once wrote that no straight thing was ever made out of which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Day intensely annoyed with Forster Batterham during the time when she nursed his partner Nanette through her terminal illness?

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

3. What was Hull House modeled after?

4. What did Viktor Frankl tell potential suicides in the concentration camp during WWII?

5. Why did Dorothy Day move to New York at age 18 and what kind of work did she end up doing at first?

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

7. What were some of Ida Eishenhower's early life struggles?

8. How does Brooks describe Adam I in the Introduction?

9. What event in young Dwight Eisenhower's life prompted his mother to read him a Bible verse about conquering his own soul that had a great impact on his adult life?

10. Why did Day set out to write about the experience of childbirth after having her child?

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

Write an essay explaining why Brooks thinks moderation is a "generally misunderstood virtue" (69). Do you agree or disagree with Brooks' opinion on this matter?

Essay Topic 3

How has the definition of both the word and larger idea of sin changed from the eighteenth century to today, in Brooks' estimation? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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