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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was with Colin Diver when he was listening to radio reports on the riots in 1968?
(a) His sister Margaret.
(b) His father Joe.
(c) His friend Mike.
(d) His wife Joan.

2. What does Chapter 13 say about Colin's expectations of what government could and couldn't do in the area of social justice?
(a) He wasn't interested in keeping them.
(b) They had changed.
(c) They had diminished.
(d) They were reexamined them after working for White.

3. What school did Rachel Twymon send her younger children to?
(a) St. Harvey's.
(b) St. Vincent's.
(c) St. Mary's.
(d) St. Patrick's.

4. When did Fanny Walker relocate to Boston?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1923.

5. What event does Chapter 9 say was an embarrassment for the Kennedy administration?
(a) The election of Nixon.
(b) The election of Louise Day Hicks.
(c) A boycott of the Boston schools.
(d) The death of Robert Kennedy.

6. Where were the two people when Chapter 2 opens?
(a) Boston City Hall.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) The Roxbury Orchard housing project.
(d) South End.

7. Who canceled James Brown's concert after the assassination of Martin Luther King?
(a) The Symphony Hall.
(b) The New England Conservatory of Music
(c) The Boston Gardens.
(d) The House of Blues.

8. Who or what did Bernie Kirk, Alice's father, not support despite of roots in his district?
(a) Joseph P. Kennedy.
(b) Kevin White.
(c) The Republican party.
(d) Martin Luther King.

9. What organization worked to raise money and improve the condition in the African-American community in Boston?
(a) P.O.O.R.
(b) C.A.S.H.
(c) F.U.N.D.
(d) M.O.N.E.Y.

10. What did Colin notice while driving the South End ?
(a) Drug dealers.
(b) Kids of different ethnicities playing together.
(c) Good deals on homes.
(d) Prostitutes.

11. What area did Colin live in?
(a) The Long area.
(b) The Brighton area.
(c) The Hety Project.
(d) The Gand Project.

12. Whom does Chapter 4 say was with Colin Diver when he listened to Mayor's White speech?
(a) Martin Black.
(b) Marty Tram.
(c) David Mann.
(d) Joan Diver.

13. What was Alice McGoff's ethnicity?
(a) Mexican.
(b) Chinese-American.
(c) African-American.
(d) Caucasian.

14. What position was Louise Day Hicks elected to in the spring of 1961?
(a) Mayor.
(b) Coroner.
(c) Sixth District Judge.
(d) The Boston School Committee.

15. Who was Joseph McKechnie?
(a) John's father.
(b) John's third yougest son.
(c) John's brother.
(d) John's third oldest son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Rachel decide to do, at the start of Chapter 12?

2. Who was informed of the assassination of Martin Luther King at the start of Chapter 4?

3. What school did Rachel Twymon's children attend, according to Chapter 8?

4. What case was Judge Arthur Garrity assigned to, at the start of Chapter 14?

5. How did Colin Diver avoid the draft?

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