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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 9 - 10).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What company did Randolph work very hard to help unionize?
(a) The Vanderbilt Company.
(b) The Aster Company.
(c) The Pullman Company.
(d) The Rockefeller Company.

2. Between which two ideals was Augustine caught even as a young boy, according to Brooks?
(a) Those of his family's and those of the church's.
(b) Those of the Roman Empire and those of the Greek Empire.
(c) Those of the classical world and those of the Judeo-Christian world.
(d) Those of the West and those of the East.

3. What tactics did Rustin and other civil rights leaders adopt to try to accomplish their goals?
(a) Direct confrontation.
(b) Carrying out damage to properties.
(c) Non-violent resistance.
(d) Attacking police stations.

4. In Chapter 3, Brooks argues that sin is communal, but error is which of the following?
(a) Individual.
(b) Preventable.
(c) Unnecessary.
(d) Heroic.

5. In Chapter 3, what word does Brooks argue has lost its power and intensity?
(a) Hate.
(b) Love.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What factor contributed to Marshall's rise through the military ranks during the 1930s?

2. What job does Brooks write that Marshall must have been devastated not to have gotten from Roosevelt?

3. What kind of literature had a great impact on Day's thinking early in her adulthood?

4. What W.H. Auden poem does Brooks reference to help describe Eliot's decision to be with her life-long romantic partner?

5. What condition does Brooks say Johnson particularly dreaded?

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