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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What newspaper did Day found?
(a) The Modesto Bee.
(b) The San Francisco Chronicle.
(c) The Catholic Light.
(d) The Catholic Worker.

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

3. What did an aide of Dwight Eisenhower's compare Eisenhower's temper to?
(a) A five-alarm fire.
(b) The sun.
(c) A Bessemer furnace.
(d) Molten lava.

4. What was the title of Day's novel that was based on her early disordered life?
(a) The Day the Music Died.
(b) The Eleventh Virgin.
(c) The Solitude of Activism.
(d) The Big Earthquake.

5. Where did Dwight Eisenhower grow up?
(a) Scranton, Pennsylvania.
(b) Mobile, Alabama.
(c) Columbus, Ohio.
(d) Abilene, Kansas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kierkegaard once wrote that only the one who descends into the underworld does which of the following?

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

3. What does Brooks compare self-control to?

4. In the Introduction, how does Brooks say people of great virtue make other people feel?

5. What is the title of Kirstin Downey's biography about Perkins?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Eisenhower's personal opinion of General Douglas MacArthur?

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

4. What virtue does Brooks say is generally misunderstood in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the main difference between a career and a vocation as Brooks describes it?

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