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Q.1
Charles Sumner was born
on Brattle Street in Cambridge
in Portland, Maine
on Beacon Hill in Boston
in Concord, New Hampshire
Q.2
One of Sumner's best friends was
African American poet Phillis Wheatley
Cambridge poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
New York poet Walt Whitman
Illinois poet Carl Sandburg
Q.3
Sumner helped found
Boston's Union Club
Cambridge's Dante Club
Boston's Harvard Club
Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club
Q.4
Sumner's career as a U.S. Senator almost ended when
he opposed Lincoln on emancipation
he was severely beaten by a fellow Congressman
the 54th Massachusetts regiment was lost
Andrew Johnson was impeached
Q.5
Sumner is memorialized with a statue
seated in Harvard Yard
standing on Boston Common
overlooking the airport tunnel that bears his name
seated on a traffic island in Harvard Square
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