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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, "The Imposition".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one reason why James receives the ROTC award?
(a) He bribes the Commander.
(b) He wears his father's shoes shined by the General's orderlies.
(c) He is a good pilot.
(d) No one else deserves the award.

2. To what is the author resistant?
(a) Authority.
(b) His father.
(c) Christianity.
(d) The military.

3. The Cardinal ritually anoints James' hands and wraps them in linen bands that are given to his mother. What power does this give James?
(a) Sacramental power to turn bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.
(b) To bless the congregation.
(c) To give the sermon.
(d) To marry.

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

5. James' appointment with Tate is interrupted by what personal tragedy the night before?
(a) James' father dies.
(b) One of Tate's newborn twins dies.
(c) The country has gone to war.
(d) His brother has been caught leaving the country and the draft.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is Selma, Alabama, in 1965, notorious?

2. What does Joe junior undergo a dozen of over the next fifteen years?

3. How does James perceive the Carroll family's time in Germany?

4. How is James, Joe and Mary's second son, born?

5. What type of student is James in high school?

(see the answer key)

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