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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, "A Priest Forever".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does James organize a citizens' tribunal to indict J. Edgar Hoover?
(a) For FBI abuses.
(b) For his segregationist views.
(c) For betraying his father.
(d) For his assination attempt of the President.

2. James hopes his ROTC unit is picked to march in whose parade?
(a) Eisenhower's.
(b) Hoover's.
(c) Kennedy's.
(d) Nixon's.

3. What belief does the General share with his son?
(a) That he is secretly against the Vietnam War.
(b) That World War III is inevitable.
(c) That he is plotting to destroy Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) That he believes the curse still exists.

4. What bill does President Johnson propose? He ends his speech with "we shall overcome" and becomes an ally of King's.
(a) Desegregation Bill.
(b) Equality for All Bill.
(c) Voting Rights Bill.
(d) The Emancipation Proclamation.

5. How does Joe feel about leaving the seminary?
(a) He is confident.
(b) He is sad.
(c) Like a disgrace.
(d) He is unsure.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who believes human nature is incapable of good?

2. Where does the author's mother take him as a two-year-old along with his four-year-old brother, Joe?

3. James recalls when he and his fellow candidates lie prostrate on the cold stone floor of St. Paul the Apostle Church. What ceremony is this?

4. For years what does James wonder about his father?

5. Who is a sexual image ideal for the author?

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