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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. Who raised Rustin?
(a) His older brother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His grandparents.
(d) His mother.

2. How did Eliot end her novel Middlemarch?
(a) With a wedding scene.
(b) With a shocking plot twist.
(c) With a death scene.
(d) By celebrating those who lead humble lives.

3. Where was George Marshall born?
(a) Newton, New York.
(b) Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
(c) Columbus, Ohio.
(d) Scranton, Pennsylvania.

4. What is arguably Eliot's most famous novel?
(a) War and Peace.
(b) Middlemarch.
(c) Wuthering Heights.
(d) A Tale of Two Cities.

5. In Chapter 6, who does Brooks say was the most prominent Civil Rights leader in America at the time the program Command Performance aired?
(a) Martin Luther King Jr.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Nat Turner.
(d) A. Philip Randolph.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Augustine take in the later years of his life?

2. How did writer Henry James describe Eliot's physical appearance?

3. How old was Marshall's wife when she died?

4. What pacifist organization did Rustin join after moving to Harlem?

5. Who was Augustine's mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Virginia Woolf characterize Eliot's work?

2. Why did Marshall lose the job of commander of the allied forces in Europe in 1943 to Eisenhower?

3. In what ways were Eliot and George Lewes well-matched as a couple?

4. What was Bayard Rustin's most significant personal flaw?

5. What was the main social consequence of Eliot's relationship with Lewes?

6. What sect's teachings did Augustine initially follow and then renounce?

7. What kind of attitude did Marshall have towards institutions, according to Brooks?

8. What significant event during the Civil Rights era did Rustin help to organize and execute?

9. What job did Marshall take in 1945 that he did not necessarily want but felt he had a responsibility to accept?

10. What significant event in 1941 was A. Philip Randolph instrumental in organizing, but eventually called off?

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