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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 7 - 8).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one characteristic that people who are calm and centered in their lives exhibit, according to Brooks in the Introduction?
(a) They hug everyone.
(b) They read constantly.
(c) They radiate a sort of moral joy.
(d) They give money to the poor.

2. What was Day fascinated with as an adolescent, according to Brooks?
(a) Insects.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Sex.
(d) Modern music.

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

4. What did Perkins' daughter once do as an adult that embarrassed Perkins?
(a) Appeared drunk at a wedding.
(b) Spent all her money and ended up in jail.
(c) Eloped.
(d) Wore wildly inappropriate attire to a society event.

5. What kind of illness did Perkins' husband suffer from?
(a) Depression and other mental health issues.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Polio.
(d) Cystic Fibrosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Eliot travel on July 20, 1854?

2. Between which two ideals was Augustine caught even as a young boy, according to Brooks?

3. What is one of the things Brooks says love depends upon?

4. How did Eliot end her novel Middlemarch?

5. During her teenage years, what was Eliot mostly caught up in?

(see the answer key)

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