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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, "Joy to My Youth".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James and Joe junior accompany their father to what base in Puerto Rico?
(a) Fort Bragg.
(b) Fort Benjamin Harrison.
(c) Ramey Air Force Base.
(d) Fort Knox.

2. Joe junior is struck with what illness?
(a) Muscular dystrophy.
(b) Polio.
(c) Lupis.
(d) Catarachs.

3. In Irish Chicago of that day, what does a refusal to become a priest after twelve years of seminary make Joe Carroll?
(a) A cheat.
(b) A thief.
(c) A spoiled priest.
(d) A mean-spirited priest.

4. Joe and Jim wear Democrat campaign pins with what motto to protest Republican "I Like Ike" campaign pins?
(a) "I Don't Like Ike."
(b) "I Hate Ike."
(c) "I like Everybody."
(d) "Who's Ike?"

5. His senior year Homecoming Day game is with what city?
(a) Paris.
(b) Stockholm.
(c) Hamburg.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a highlight of James' parent's life?

2. What is Father James Carroll celebrating?

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

4. The Touhy manhunt takes on the wartime symbolism of a hunt for who?

5. In November 1965, who sets himself on fire at the Pentagon?

(see the answer key)

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